this movie be a perfect example of when what could have be one of the most brilliant movie ever be make and through the incompetence of only one man and into one of the bad . i can not list in detail the number of way this movie could have be make well and and they be all mind bogglingly simple and all george lucas fault . even so and i will try to condense them into a short list . 1. actor or cast i have to give all of the actor credit for this because i know they try their best and even jake lloyd . the movie do not give me a single reason why i should have care for any of the character and i can not explain why i do anyway . i can not count how many time people have tell me how much good haley joel osment would have be in the role and and i be almost incline to agree with them . supposedly there something dark and ominous about the anakin character that all of the jedi council can see and after all and he gon na be darth vader and right . osment project that fear which lead to anger which lead to etc . and and lloyd just look like your run of the mill blond california cabbage patch kid . i would call jake lloyd a terrible actor if it weren not for what the great sci fi writer orson scott card and who personally know lloyd and observe represent jake lloyd a good actor and and it a pity you do not get to see that on screen and since he have no direction or screenplay . in the same way and liam neeson be a great actor and but you do not see that onscreen because he have no direction or screenplay . which bring me to my second fault represent2 . direction let face it and george lucas have lose it . he have go from the great actor director he be when he make american graffiti to a special effect artist go wildly out of control . i do give him some credit represent it take a lot of deliberate effort to sap all of the energy and life out of ewan mcgregor . 3. screenplay or plot this be the section that really make me wince and and prove that there be nobody leave in hollywood with the courage to tell george lucas that he can not write . i mean and logical inconsistency aside and this dialogue be simply ridiculous . if a first grader be call in a a script consultant and he could most likely have improve this movie . there be a thousand instance of questionable logic in this movie like and why do queen amidala reveal herself when she do . why do she want to go back to naboo so badly if it would do no good whatsoever and she would probably just get kill . be we suppose to believe that a ten year old be go to have twin with her eventually . why be she call a queen anyway and if naboo be suppose to be a democracy . do the native of naboo share one collective brain cell to elect a teenager to run their planet . and what kind of name be naboo anyway . beyond that and it doesn not even make sense in term of the rest of the establish star war universe . for example and the shield that repel blaster fire and obviously add so the death count would be low and they could appeal to the family market . why do we not see them in the late episode and when they seem to be of immeasurable tactical value . a for the so called phantom menace conspiracy and do the initiation into the jedi knighthood include an iq curtailment . why do not those clod figure out at once that palpatine be behind it all along . in the end and i find myself root for palpatine or sidious and simply because he be geometrically more intelligent than any of the other character and would probably do a pretty good job of rule the universe . at least he would be a good emperor than george lucas be a screenwriter . well and it seem that i do not do a very good job at condense and but oh well . i be ashamed to say that i saw this movie three time and hat it more each time . that it have gross over $ 400 million make me wonder that the entire american society doesn not grind to a halt as soon a someone see a bright shiny object . do i mention that the special effect be too amaze for their own good .