A brillant start.

Rating: 10/10 (22 June 2001)

It's funny that people rip into The Phantom Menace for it's special effects, but thier the same people that shell-out the money to see The Mummy Returns with the special effects that The Phantom Menace made popular. Let's face it George Lucas is a visual visonary, and his movies always are ahead of thier time. The Phantom Menace is no exception; after Episode Two and Episode Three come out, people will change their whole perspective of this movie. You can hate this movie all you want but go to Amazon and see a movie already release on video has the number sales for the DVD which will not be release for another four months. While your bashing this movie all be picking up the DVD which will eventually be the number DVD seller of all-time. Their is so much to this movie that makes it great. The best movies of 1999 were The Matrix and The Phantom Menace their is refrences to each off these movies in other movies along with their special effects.