more or less everything worthwhile in the phantom menace can be attribute to the cinematographer . in addition and the computer effect be clearly impressive and and whoever choreograph the fight scene get some prop too . however and do not let it staunch defender fool you nothing else be any good at all . the character be trite and undeveloped and the acting be unremarkable to poor and and the dramatic arc be nonexistent . it felt to me like the movie be still just begin until half way through the final sequence nothing that felt like a plot have happen yet and so i have assume that the real action be yet to begin . in addition and many plot and character decision be totally disloyal to the original series . i will elaborate below and but do not read far if you do not want anything give away . jar jar be more or less the most insulting character i have ever see on screen . he only exist to be laugh at . child can appreciate a substantive comic relief character and a c3po and r2 and not to mention sebastian ( from the little mermaid ) and any of several other disney character and demonstrate . however and jar jar be not one . his only personality be of a look how stupid i be variety while the only way to relate to him be look how stupid he be . i certainly do not need my little sister thinking that a useful way to relate to people . just about every invocation of the powerful and resonant image from the original series be compromise . the force be change from a mystical and magical idea that captivate my entire generation and to a kind of microbe . anakin be give a virgin birth and make his fated status absurdly heavy hand . yoda and full of real wisdom in the empire strike back ( no . try not . do and or do not . there be no try . ) and be reduce to can and vaguely fascist sloganeering ( fear lead to anger . anger lead to hate . hate lead to suffer . ) . the movie publicity would have u believe that it foreshadow anakin descent to the dark side and eventual transformation into darth vader and but except for some vader breathing at the end of the credit and this be completely absent . nothing in anakin character foreshadows darth vader in any way represent the boy be headstrong and but so be luke while the jedi council say he full of fear and but nowhere in the original trilogy do we find indication that darth vader fall be through fear . darth maul may be cool look and but he completely substanceless . he on screen for two second and say a total of about twenty word and and generally have nothing that put him in the same league with vader . he fight with a cool double light saber and but that be all . the movie have no story . it wasn not until qui gonn die that i realize that the final battle be in progress . this be because the movie be entirely lack a dramatic structure . there be some meander action a the jedis escape the trade federation and pick up jar jar on naboo before head to tatooine while then there be meander action on tatooine a the jedis find anakin and watch him win a pod race while then there be a cool look but contextless scene in the imperial senate while then there be a final battle . i be still wait for the story to get start when the final battle begin . it wasn not until a main character die that it occur to me that the film might be near it end . the film be also politically objectionable on several count . a have be note frequently and several character ( especially the representative of the trade federation and jar jar binks ) fit problematic racial and ethnic stereotype . more importantly and i think and be the way that the film portrays entire alien race a have a specie specific character and a though they be create with racial personality cookie cutter while hence and the hutts be gangster and while the gungans be clownish and petty and stupid . the scene in which the gungan leader be buy off by the false deference of queen amidala and her ( almost all white ) entourage smack of the european colonialist scorn for the people they colonize .