Solid title.

Rating: 6/10 (1 May 2013)

Phantom Menace released in 1999 as a prequel to the three excellent original films, shortly after its release the movie garnered a ton of hate. The film isn't even as close to be as bad as people say, it is actually pretty decent. Let's start off with flaws in the movie, and yes, there are many. First off, the characters, most of these characters are either boring or annoying. Jar Jar Binks and "Little Ani" are so annoying and it is so unbelievable that this dumb brat kid becomes Vader. The decoy queen looks so bored out of her mind and talks like a shemale robot. Ewan McGregor looks bored out of his mind in this movie and is terrible until the final lightsaber duel. Darth Maul & Qui Gon Jinn were arguably good characters in my opinion. Other bad things are most of the action sequences. The action is so plain and dumb. How the hell does Anakin "Accidently" blow up that donut thing, that scene is unwatchable. The Battle with the Gungans is so boring and just shows off the new CGI technology and not to mention how terrible the pod race scene is. There's a lot more bad other than that but now i will move onto the good. Qui Gon Jinn and Darth Maul are good characters. Darth Maul is menacing and looks like a badass and Qui Gon is a protective Alec Guiness like jedi the only complaint is he almost seems like a carbon copy of Alec Guiness in A New Hope. Some of the action was good The Lightsaber duel is amazing, the raid through Naboo was decent, the opening scene was good, and the scene before they leave Naboo was good. I also grew up with this film so I have a lot of good memories with it, the CGI is very nostalgic to me. Forgot to mention this, the soundtrack is awesome "Duel Of Fates and "Droid Invasion" are great Star Wars-y songs. Movie Rating: 6/10, decent.
1. Revenge Of The Sith 2. Attack Of The Clones 3. The Empire Strikes Back 4. A New Hope 5. Return Of The Jedi 6. The Phantom Menace