not as superficial as it seems

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 1999)

This movie will entertain you with the greatest visual FX ever! It will entertain you with great exasperating action sequences and the most stylish lightsabre fighting ever seen.
However, when you take a closer look, this movie is not as superficial as it seems. It also contains one truth, one will, one dream, one destiny and one love. These are revealed as small details in the short periods between the action sequences, but they are nevertheless important in regard to the Saga's future.
Eventually, this film shows how the dark force undermines the democracy of the galaxy by using the Trade Federation as a menace to Naboo thus the senate appears to be unable to deal with conflicts. Even the Jedi do not realize that it is only a "Phantom Menace" which helps the Sith to infiltrate the most powerful political center of the galaxy and to take their first step towards the Empire.
The actors? Well, i admit that you can hardly call them ACTors because they do not seem to develop their characters very much. I also think they are not supposed to. I think George Lucas chose so many great actors because he wanted them to have a charismatic effect without losing time to show their characters' development. On the overall, I feel that he is successful. Skeeve@redseven.de