Nope.

Rating: 3/10 (19 May 1999)

Not much here......to read people calling Lucas a genius baffles me. The story is good - as always, but Mr. Lucas, get some help with the rest of it.
The special effects and computerized imagery is amazing, but every human element is lacking. Nearly every line seems robotic, and sometimes it doesn't take a line. Every movement in this movie has been scripted and it shows. The impromptu and the emotion that comes with it is what makes a movie go beyond the average and Phantom Menace has none. Actors are supposed to become the characters they portray. But, for instance, Neeson wasn't Qui-Gon Jinn, he was Neeson playing Qui-Gon Jinn. Give me a robe and I'll be me playing Qui-Gon. If Lucas wants to show me how to put my hand up to my face as if I was deep in thought (a la Samuel Jackson), hey...I can do it just fine.
You want my opinion?...I'd say see it once, and then wait for HBO...oh yeah...I forgot...Lucas controls that, too.