I want my money back!!!

Rating: Null/10 (1 November 1999)

I paid $10 on opening night at 1.00am to watch a piece of total garbage! Yes, that's right, garbage!!! I mean, the movie begins with characters we don't even know, letting jedis on their ship. But the discussions of both are hard to understand as the casual viewer such as myself ask ourselves what is happening.
If you compare Episode I to Epsiode IV, you can see that in IV, the good-guys are being taken over by a dark lord for a reason, and thus right away you understand that Darth Vader is eveil, while C3-PO and R2-D2 are good. then the plot develops with Luke, and the sunsequent ending is clear after character development is accomplished. In Episode I, nothing even close to this takes place, except seeing Anakin as a kid race with Pods. The overall plot here is a tax dispute??? Come on, something better George, please!
The final action sequences were amazing, but even the death of one of them (I won't specify which) is extremely far-fetched and ridiculous. Also, even with this great action, the underlying plot leading to this point isn't as strong as others, resulting in the audience caring less about the outcome, since we don't really care for the characters and their causes. Despite all this, the graphics are amazing, and at times left me in speecheless amazement.
However, seeing another battle sequence with NO human characters is not right for me in a Star Wars flick. I guess to me, STAR WARS should be self-explanitory, and not a puzzle that you the viewer needs to put together in a hurry in order to see the whole picture. My friends, who totally understood everything, had to explain things to me. However, the only reason they knew ahead of time, was because they read various books, and information ahead of time, which is not right, since one shouldn't have to do that in order to gain a true understanding of a movie. Lucas has a lot of work to do if he wants the next one to be up to par with the rest of the series.
OVERALL - a low 5/10