Great effects can't help the bad dialogue.

Rating: 5/10 (16 May 2002)

When I sat down and watched this movie with about 600 other Star Wars fans I didn't really know what to expect - my expectations before Episode One had been huge but that movie didn't turn out to be very good. Now that I've seen the movie I'd like to comment on two things: first of all the special effects in this movie; they are great - I've never seen anything like it before, the music also plays an important part i the perception of the special effects - the use of drum music, as can be heard in 'Crounching Tiger, Hiden Dragon' makes one of the Light Saber duels into something special. The other part that I wanted to comment is the dialogue - we were 600 people in the theater, all of us had was very excited, and all of us screamed one or two time because of the bad dialogue. The problem it seems, is that the dialogue feels too 'constructed' while this is good when you want to make trailers or punch lines that you want the audience to remember after leaving the theater, it is really bad when you are trying to show a love relationship or something like that.