Hmmm....

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 1999)

Although I enjoyed The Phantom Menace, I find myself wondering if I was watching the most expensive video game ever made or a great achievement in film-making. I did like the film, but for all that is on the screen, it left me feeling empty. The characters are like action figures in a make believe universe. My young neice could have made the characters more complicated. I am one of the world's largest fans of Star Wars and everything to do with Star Wars. I found myself harkening back to the wonder I felt the first time I saw Star Wars in a movie theater, this film felt empty. Fantastic images, but at the cost of human compassion.