Don't compare it too much with the original trilogy

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2001)

I loved the original star wars movies and was a bit disappointed, there was not that magic which I felt in the other movies. But let's have a look at some very important points: The original movies had great characters like Darth Vader, Luke, Hand and Lea. Nobody of them appears in this movie. So in my opinion it's quite difficult to replace such impressive people with others. Also note, that "A New Hope" starts in the middle of war. "The Phantom Menace" starts elsewhere, what explains that this story can't be that dramatic like " A new hope". There are great scenes in this movie, but everything seemed very different from the original trilogy. The trilogy had like a thin red line through the whole story, but the phantom menace is like something else, completely different. Let's hope that George Lucas will put the pieces together and we finally see a complete story with six good films.