The force is with George Lucas tonight.

Rating: 10/10 (19 May 1999)

I just saw this movie, and I was totally speechless. Intense, powerful, worthy to be called the beginning of the Star Wars epic. Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor were both convincing and strong Jedi Knights, shaded by the Coruscant based Sith, Maul and his mysterious master Sidious. The battles of the Jedi and Sith were the most amazingly well done of all the StarWars films. The only lacking parts were the starship battles, though that's not what this is about. There were so many tiny things that eluded to the movies of the past, one such being the final line of Senator Palpatine ... "Many thanks, young skywalker, we shall watch your career quite closely...." all in all, the best of all four films yet. I wait with bated breathe for three years for the next...