Boring.

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2002)

Sorry, but it really was boring and I really wanted to like it... a lot. I know that comment will anger many "Jedi's" who waited for days for tickets but let's look at it objectively. It opened shaky but picked up. I thought, "Great! Finally, it's back!!" But then the brakes were applied and it came to a screeching halt in after the first plot point. It picked back up toward the end (after and hour and a half) but then I was thinking, "Why are we fighting...? Some politics or something? Eh, who cares... it's fun again." Without giving anything away, the end fights were amazing and that totally salvaged the film for me. The set-up of the Storm Troopers was great... originally good guys!? Wow. And the last scene, again without giving anything away, is a redeeming one for Star Wars fans because it finally starts getting into familiar territory with the 'ultimate weapon'.
The problem with these early Star Wars films is that it was to set up the franchise and to do that there is a lot of dialogue from talking heads. Until more familiar things occur, people will never like these films because it's completely foreign. I actually didn't mind the talking heads but, lets use some editing!!
All in all, these first two early films were good films in their own right, but they weren't good 'Star Wars' films. The films people know are simple, the bad guys wear black and are trying to take over the universe, the good guys in white have to stop them. Simple.
Overall; 4/10. It was made as well as it could be to set things but intercut some action and/or cut down the rambling dialogue.