Critics Don't Know Squat

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 1999)

I'd heard all the hype and read all the bad reviews and was totally prepared for the worst. And thus rather surprised at what I saw.
Critics don't know squat, and I doubt I will ever read or trust one again. If have a funny feeling that those who claimed the new movie didn't measure up to the old ones were in the forefront of the criticism of the old ones too, and are only now trying to get on the bandwagon.
Perhaps the best summary of this movie was the "report" rather than the "review" in Time Magazine. Lucas has taken movie making further, and I wouldn't be surprised if it takes another five to ten years to realize what he has really done here.
P.S. Time says there is only one scene totally without special effects. We seemed to see two. Clue: think "Tom Jones".