An Insult to STAR WARS Fans

Rating: 1/10 (4 March 2001)

This was nothing more than greed and ego run amuck. George Lucas' contribution to cinema is secure in history, but this film (and most likely the next two) will definitely taint a once flawless image. I knew once I saw the re-issues of the first three films that Episode One would be terrible. Lucas, I don't know, maybe's it's living up their in the thin air of Skywalker Ranch, but has lost all sense of reality.
Lucas was a victim of his own creation. He's done so much to push the boundaries of technology with computers that in this film it bit him on the ass. In STAR WARS (1977) this is supposed to be the future to Episode One (1999), so, how's it possible all the technology (weapons, computers, spaceships, etc.) are all more advanced than in the past? There's no way around that one. Secondly, if the First "death Star" was destroyed by a lone pilot flying into the middle and blowing it up, why would the future Empire construct its new Death Star to be destroyed the exact same way? And then again for RETURN OF THE JEDI?
Lucas is gone. Light's on and nobody's home. And I haven't even mentioned Jar Jar.
Lucas has done many, many excellent things for film, but what's past does not appear to be prologue.