Nice Build-Up for the Original Trilogy

Rating: 8/10 (17 February 2015)

Disclaimer: I am 18 years old and until now I had never seen Star Wars. While most people's view on Star Wars nowadays is clouded by nostalgia, here is my unaffected take on these 'classics'. I'm watching in this order: IV - V - I - II - III - VI
I would place this movie as better than "Episode II", but slightly below "Episode I". This movie is awesome in many ways, especially in it's battles and how all of the pieces fall together for the original trilogy. That said, Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker is quite unlikeable. I suppose this is the point, but it isn't entertaining nonetheless.
Also, it is not a fun movie to watch in the sense that everything is really going downhill for the good guys. Once again, it is probably expected of this prequel to tie in with it's follow- ups, but it significantly drops this movie's re-watch-value to basically 0.
So this movie is great as a prequel, but fails in comparison to most of the other movies.