My long suffering has ended ...very positively !!

Rating: 9/10 (23 July 1999)

Ok I gave this movie 9 / 10 .
Ok I'll quickly tell you what took that little point away from excellent. I really liked the movie fabulous ,i really was saddened when I heard TV and radios saying that the movie wasn't such a big hit. I entered the cinema hoping to spend what little cash I had with myself well enuff. At the end i was really satisfied , a really well spent time and money .
I really liked Ewan McGregor's version of young Obi-wan ,and really liked Qui-gonn Jinn played by liam Neeson .Especially at the beginning when they light their sabres in a poison filled room . That shot was incredible.From then on I was really entertained , till I heard again those Incredible words that I heard when I was a kid , ' concentrate on the moment ...and let the force be with you ' . At that point had I not controlled myself I would have jumped up and screamed 'YAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEH' Most of the FX were really well done ( but too clean ..explain later)I liked them ( but very strangely I preferred the ones in the first trilogy ) .Then came the fighting scenes , really fabulous, I liked them more than the ones between Luke and Vader in the first trilogy , really nicely setup.
Jar Jar Binks is a character who is inevitable in these movies and I'd also say quite useful to make the movie more enjoyable to a younger audience.So I'll abstain from judging him .
Now comes the question of the computer grafix ( CG ) .... I did enjoy the movie ,really well done in all aspects but in the end what the first trilogy had ,but I missed in this movie, was the crudeness of the first movies which resulted to me more realistic than this very clean version.
The first movie displayed ships that were visibly , imperfect , dirty .Here everything is perfect like the Gungan city or the underwater lifeforms.Everything a bit too perfect .Even the fighter droids looked a bit too delicate to me .The gungan race a really nice idea but still too perfect.There is this small difference still , for me, between reality and what computer grafix can accomplish .
Anyway great movie , and a good way to start this new trilogy !! Recommended to everyone !!