The Empire has no clothes.

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 1999)

Overall not a bad movie, but by no means great. It suffers the curse of being the first chapter in a story of great things to come. There are moments of brilliance throughout and Jake Lloyd (as Anakin) is not nearly as bad as everyone says he is. Surprisingly, Lucas chose not to use a lot of foreshadowing on Lloyd's character. I can see both sides of the coin in that Lucas couldn't just make an evil kid because then Kenobi wouldn't train him, but I do think there should have been at least a little foreshadowing to show that this kid may be destined for bad things. Maybe in the next episode. See it for the duel scene between Kenobi and Darth Maul if nothing else and do your best to ignore Jar Jar.