It’s really hard to explain this plot because it’s very confusing. Just read the plot summary above. I’ll just tell you the subplot I know. This goes back about 30 years from the original Star Wars, Obi-wan Kenobi known as a Jedi master is just a Jedi apprentice, His teacher is Qui-Gonn Jinn who is a new character, Yoda is younger, The evil Lord Darth Vader is just a small rambunctious scamp who is a slave on his home planet. So Qui-gonn and Kenobi get stranded on the planet where the Evil Darth Maul is hunting them. They discover the boy, Qui-Gonn can sense the force in Anakin, But Kenobi is against it.
While leaving the planet, Qui-Gonn has a brief confrontation with Maul but leaves safely and so begins the forming of Anakin. That’s really the gist of it all. What can I say about this movie? Being a hardcore “Star Wars” fan I was able to go into the theater with high hopes. The character development is great, The enemy is cool, The special-effects are extremely phenomenal with the light saber battle scenes, ships, space battles, and Extraordinary landscapes. The creatures are great and very imaginative. I left the theatre very satisfied. It pains me to say that this movie has a lot of faults, Unfortunately I left the theatre satisfied but somewhat disappointed. Episode 1 lacks a lot of the heart the original series embraced. The plot is very very dull and extremely slow. It drags at a snails pace.
A lot of the characters have no heart in this and display no real emotions. In the first movie we had Han Solo who displayed humor and sarcasm, Leia who displayed ferocity and independence, Luke who displayed innocence and ambition, Chewbacca who displayed pure animal ferocity, and The droids who displayed quirkiness. But in this one, all the characters seemed depressed and the only comic relief was barely comical. Also, the dialogue was too long and intellectual, I never heard anyone say: “Okay”, or “Yes.” I know it seems a bit dumb but believe it or not, the movie is much more watchable that way.
There were also a lot of sequences in here that were meant to be dramatic and pivotal but they just unfolded as unnecessary and droll. For example, the big pod race with Anakin which had intentions of being dramatic and tense but to me, seemed very dull and dumb. The big spaceship battle in the end was dumb too. It featured a lot of minor characters and no key characters so it made it very unnecessary.
In the first one and third one we Had Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in battle trying to destroy the death star. These are key characters which makes the battle all the more important. George Lucas should learn more. So in conclusion, the movie is great but not without its faults, so I suggest this for Hardcore fans of the saga and not for regular movie-goers. A somewhat sub-par and partly disappointing comeback for Lucas back into the “Star Wars” series since its mostly just character set-ups, but still watchable and fun within its story.