The right stuff!

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2002)

Honestly, I think it is competing with Return of the Jedi as the best of the lot. I can't help but being amazed how all the CGI effects are so right this time in all the places they seemed wrong in the Phantom Menace. They are still abundant in the truest meaning of the word, but instead of being annoying they simply work! The acting is as usual abysmal for the most part which hardly can be blamed on the very fine cast, but the movie as a whole is so genuinely entertaining and the plot well told that it hardly matters. A final credit should be handed to the score, rarely has the music been delivered so miraculously timed as here which really enhances the total experience by huge amounts. I can only recommend you to go see it in the biggest cinema available to you, if any movie deserves it this one does. My verdict: 8/10.