Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) by Kenneth B — 18 Dec 2015

I actually enjoyed the second half of this film enough but the first half is so unnecessary and so tedious. The racing scene is ten minutes too long, the characters are not interesting compared to the later episodes, and it tries way too hard to connect everything to the overarching story.

The creatures and effects are very cool but the action isn't that interesting and Darth Maul is hardly a foe in the slightest.