Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) by Alexander R — 13 Dec 2017

While The Phantom Menace is perhaps not the structurally sound adventure film that fans expected, it still delivers action and fun in places that perhaps the sequels in the prequel trilogy do not.

Episode I takes a lot of risks and not all of them pay out. Dialog and performances seem oddly rigid, story and character threads seem a little misguided, though there's a grounded look and feel to this film that the sequels unfortunately lose entirely.