Should have been better

Rating: 5/10 (1 January 2007)

Episodes 2 and 3 are much better than this so I'm not a hater, but I have one major complaint on this movie. How come 2 Jedi masters don't carry any kind of international currency so they can buy parts for their spaceships if they break down? Isn't there some kind of credit card they could use or maybe some straight up cash they could laydown? I mention this because it's on this premise that Anakin is introduced to the story. Because they don't carry currency when they travel, they make a bet on a pod race to get the part for their ship. That's just stupid! Half the damn movie is about the fact that Jedi's can't pay for things in cash and they use that to basically introduce the future Darth Vader, which in turn becomes the cohesive thread of the entire series! So if Jedi's could just carry some form of currency around on their important missions, they would have just walked in, bought the part they needed, and been on their merry way! No Darth Vader! Am I the only one that thinks this way?