rs viewed in theaters everywhere or on the previews seen on TV I was at a loss when I already knew what the outcome of every major scene in the movie would be. The underwater beasts of the great oceans of Adda Gunga where in extremelylife like, but it lost affect when I had already seen them four time already. Possibly thegreatest part of this movie, the fighting scenes between Darth Maul(Ray Park) and the JediGui-Gon jin and Obi wan Kenobi (Liam Neison and Ewan McGregor), was shown almostin its entirety during the movie previews! This movie was however not all that bad to a die hard Star Wars fan like myself. Igot lost in the plot twists and foreshadowing that only a true die hard fan would trulyunderstand. The fast pace of this movie does not allow you to get bored, and it did notbog me down with lots of back information about the other movies, but instead it seemedto be like an independent film at the beginning of what could be a great series of movies tocome. That one fact is in my eyes what saved this movie, George Lucas did a great job atmaking a movie that must in a sense “ set the stage” for the other great Star Wars moviesafter the fact that they have already had astronomical sucess almost a decade beforeepisode one was even a dream in Lucas’ mind.When looking from an over all view I would give Star Wars: episode 1-ThePhantom Menace- a B+, but looking from a true fan’s perspective I give it a definite solidA. I guess it all get down to if you haven’t seen this movie yet, even after all the mediahype and merchandise sales preceding its release then I recommend you do, you will notbe sorry, and who knows for all you people out there who have the opinion “ Star warssucks” this movie may change your minds....
