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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 2261029" data-attributes="member: 150">[PLAIN][spoilers][/PLAIN][SPOILERS]I gave it a 4, and I was pretty disappointed.  Phantom menace had one thing going for it -- Darth Maul -- and his 8 minutes of on-screen fighting time are the best in all three of Episodes 1-3.  There are some very good fight scenes in this one, too, but they have the same empty, cartoony quality that Neo's fight with hundreds of Smiths in Matrix Reloaded.  But this one lacked what all three of the recent episodes have lacked -- character and personality.  Every character that walks across the screen has the same lack of depth and feeling that has poisoned all three movies.  This one really needed to be a character-driven piece, and instead we were treated to the same shorthand and charicature that has made it so hard to connect with the other two.  I mean, where's the banter?  Where's the tension between characters.  Wheres the crackle in the dialog.  The writing was stilted and obvious, the acting was flat, and in both the real fault, I believe, lies in the director who has spent the past 10 years demonstrating a lack of interest in those elements of his filmmaking.  I would have been relieved, happy -- ecstatic, really -- for just a few sharp lines, well delivered, like "Would someone get this walking carpet out of my way" or "let the wookie win" or "Who's scruffy looking?".  Instead we get dull flat lack of feeling.  I didn't feel Anakin's love for Padme.  I didn't care about his confusion as he was manipulated by the Chancellor.  I didn't feel obiwan's dismay at having to fight his student.  I didn't feel ANYTHING for Padme, and let's face it, she's a hottie.  I mean, it didn't even sound like they were writing for Yoda very well.  So, it's a pretty piece of science fantasy.  Some cool fight scenes -- especially Obiwan's duel with the Robot General dude.  But it's not what I'd let myself hope it would be, given all the hype.-rg</blockquote>

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