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Rating: Null/10 (17 July 1999)

Let me get this straight...I wait 16 years for another "Star Wars" film, and I get 1 1/2 Hours of Jar-Jar?? Sheesh!! Ok, let's get rollin' here... 2 Jedi Knights are sent to help a Queen save her world from high taxes, and end up finding a young boy who has The Force. Well, aside from being a Paper-Thin plot, many of the characters seem as if they were written by an idiot. Darth Maul is BY FAR the single most interesting character in the entire film, and we only get ONE LINE OF DIALOG, and 10 minutes of screen time. Samuel L. Jackson, one of the great actors working today, is on the screen for approximately the same amount of time, also. So I get stuck watching a half-wit, half-written, no-brainer character like Jar-Jar for most of the film?? God, save me from bad plot LOOPHOLES and moronic dialog!! Even Ewan and Liam seemed like they didn't even want to be there...and any director that can suck all the charisma out of Ewan obviously needs to go back to film school.
Now for the parts I liked (Yes, there are some). I loved the Light Saber Battles with Maul. Yes, he died in a totally STUPID way, but the fights were EXCELLENT. The Pod Race was exciting, and fun, too. The CGI. is top notch, as expected, and was high-octane, and just ROCKIN'. Also, there is a Light Saber battle in the beginning of the film, where Ewan and Liam wipe out a whole plethora of battle droids...Pretty Darn Cool!! All the action sequences in this movie are well done, and exciting! For THAT, I applaud. As for the writing, the character development (don't even get me started), the PLOT development...well, there are more disappointments than a room full of Roland Emmerich films. Lucas, hire the Wachowski Brothers to make the next "Star Wars" film...THAT WOULD KICK BUTT...and that's the damndest bottom line, I ever BOTTOM LINED!!! **1/2 out of 5.