Crushing force

Rating: 3/10 (30 April 2020)

Obi Wan Kenobi, Qui Gon Jinn and Padme meet a slave kid named Anakin who could be the chosen one. I eagerly anticipated this prequel and it still stands as one of the biggest crushing cinematic disappointments of my life. Everything about this sequel is wooden, the villain Darth Maul while cool looking is merely just a throwaway assassin, the real villain Palpatine is kept kinda on the sidelines and the movie is pretty boring. The pod racing sequence is unexciting because we know he's going to win it cause we know who Anakin is going to grow up to be. Upon rewatch the CGI landscape looks video gamey, the political jargon is nonsensical and because the directing is so flat, none of the story develops any momentum and the smaller scenes meant to be heartfelt feel cloying.
*1/2 Out Of 4-(Poor)