the first chapter of star wars...although not as we expected

Rating: 6/10 (4 August 2008)

This movie is looked upon as a failure when considering the huge hype that surrounded the release of this film. The reason being is that the script is dull in comparison with large chunks of dialogue becoming tedious after about twenty minutes. Almost all of Natalie Portman's lines are about politics!!!
The other perhaps more important reason for this being a flop is that there's a serious lack of continuity with the original saga. Characters such as the viceroy, jar jar Binx,Qui Gon Jin, Darth maul are all introduced and then discarded in the following film. It really would've been better if Qui Gon Jin never existed, and Obi Wan was already the Jedi master and Anakin was his apprentice already...there's no real absolute need to give Anakin a background of being a pod racer with a mother etc All thats really important is that he good and will turn evil. The movies opening sequence is a waste of time because nothing is achieved when concerning developing the films plot....and an hour into watching the film you realise the story hasn't actually taken you anywhere since the opening sequence. I think the scene in which the main characters arrive in Corrosant would have been a nice place to start the film....the just of whats happened could be easily explained in the writing at the start....and maybe episode 2's storyline could be weaved in somehow...like Anakin being hired to protect Padme by the council could occur immediately at the start of this film....the fact that Qui Gon Jin is introduced and Obi Wan his apprentice means Anakin is insignificant and not developed in any way throughout the film.
Also jar jar Binx should be axed as he makes the film somewhat childlike.