One dragged out and dull attempt at a prequel.

Rating: 3/10 (25 August 2018)

I'm a newcomer into the Star Wars universe, and after finally having seen the original trilogy I decided to give this one a chance just like the other prequels, because I remember watching them many years ago.
And man, what a dull expirience I submitted myself to!
The acting is my biggest problem, because almost every one of the actors are so monotonous I swear I cringed so much. In the middle of an attack they just kept on with the same monotone.
And since CGI was used here instead of the animatronics and other real life puppets and such in the original, it just felt fake and sometimes you could easily see that it wasn't there. Like Jar Jar Binks, Boss Nass, Watto and so on. They just stuck out, and I knew they weren't there.
Speaking of Jar Jar Binks, what the hell??? What is his purpose??? He was so damn annoying I could punch him!
The only things I would say was decent is the makeup, that's a thing they did well, like the outfits of Queen Amidala and the design of Darth Maul.
And when there were lightsaber fights they were made more intense, because back in the day it looked like they only tapped at each other's glowing sticks ;)
The fight between Darth Maul, Qui-Gon Jin and and Obi-Wan Kenobi was my favourite scene, but what a shame I had to go through almost to hours of dull dialogue and filler scenes to get to it. Okay, to be fair, many of the landscapes were beatiful to look at.
A dull movie overall, so I don't think I'll recommend this if you know the original trilogy.