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Rating: 6/10 (2 July 2015)

Now as many of you know I'm a fan of Star Trek but I took the time to watch some Star Wars and I want to review the films so I started at the beginning of the prequels before moving onto the original trilogy which the only one I seen in full was A New Hope.
I remember how much hype and talk that went on with this new movie along with ties in such as toys, books, video games and so on. I only saw this movie a few times mostly just bit and pieces and sometimes during school when they would play the VHS copy during breaks.
To be honest I couldn't really enjoy it back than because it did have a lot of seriously moments that make you go what were they thinking? Again I'm not 100 percent in touch with Star Wars. But I know a good share of it.
So let's not delay any more and move onto the review of Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace.
The film starts off with the tradition text roll and we are introduce to our protagonists Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson). We also are introduce to Queen Amidala/Padme (Natalie Portman) Young Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) among others as well as Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Frank Oz reprising their roles as C-3PO, R2-D2 and Master Yoda respective
We are also introduce to Darth Maul (Ray Park) the film main antagonist and his slight alone is enough to give you nightmares.
What I find mostly disappointing about this film is that a good percent of the film is spend just slow pace along with most of the characters feeling out of place as you have to be a fan of Star Wars to understand them, some of the writing just feels a mess.
But what's good about the film is the music is very well balance as John Williams shows that his music is why Star Wars fans love it because anything he touches is a gold brick, Portman's performance was good enough and help made her character convincing, the pod race scene was really good it gave you that feel of watching a real race, plus the climax is what fans would want in a Star Wars film.
It just so much of this film just feels out of pace but Star Wars will appreciate it none the less
I give Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace an 6 out of 10