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Star wars episode 1 reviews1/2/2024 ![]() There is a close call in an elevator shaft, but where are the guards and the security systems? And why, for that matter, does a deep space cruiser need an observation tower, when every porthole opens on to the universe? But never mind.īack within the sphere of the Jedi Council, Anakin finds that despite his heroism, he will not yet be named a Jedi Master. In the spirit of all the "Star Wars" movies, this rescue sequence flies in the face of logic, since the two pilots are able to board Grievous' command ship and proceed without much trouble to the ship's observation tower, where the chancellor is being held. Grievous (whose voice, by Matthew Woods, sounds curiously wheezy considering the general seems to use replacement parts). As Yoda sadly puts it in his inimitable word order: "The boy you trained, gone he is, consumed by Darth Vader."Īs "Episode III" opens, Anakin Skywalker ( Hayden Christensen) and his friend Obi-Wan Kenobi ( Ewan McGregor) are piloting fighter craft, staging a daring two-man raid to rescue Chancellor Palpatine ( Ian McDiarmid). What we discover in "Episode III" is how and why Anakin lost his way - how a pleasant and brave young man was transformed into a dark, cloaked figure with a fearsome black metal face. He is also the film's brawling uber-philosopher, advising his young friends, as someone always has to, about how best to attend to the power of the Force.That Anakin Skywalker abandoned the Jedi and went over to the dark side is known to all students of "Star Wars." That his twins Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia would redeem the family name is also known. Liam Neeson brings a heavy dose of quiet man to his erstwhile-Samurai posture: his character, Qui-Gon, has a great interest in the story of the future – a story we already know from the other three films – and more often that not he acts as the plot's connective tissue. He will soon be as loved as Winnie-the-Pooh. Jar-Jar is pretty useless as a mate: he can't fix stuff, and he's always getting into bother, but he lends a load of schlepping good humour to the average task of the young Jedi. ![]() ![]() He raps like a Jamaican gangster and walks like one of the Kids from Fame: he is already limbering up, in his computer-generated way, to be a long-serving Jedi chum in the manner of the howling, hairy Chewbacca. A wise-cracking, pony-headed, flarey-nostrilled, slack-mouthed beast with giant feet and hands like shovels, he comes into our lives as someone who knows the ways of the universe a little better than the rest of us. We wondered at the technological wizardry involved in making a plastic man's eyes go from side to side. we used to bother our mothers for telescopes, and beg the Baby Jesus for another five minutes of The Twilight Zone.Īnother programme on TV at the time was called Space 1999: it offered a madly innocent, sticky-back-plastic vision of the intergalactic future, and we seized as many episodes as we could, swallowing them down with endless sachets of some horrendous erupting sherbet called Space Dust. When I was a boy – oh yes – a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. ![]() Here is the Telegraph's original review by Booker Prize-nominated novelist Andrew O'Hagan, published on July 15, 1999. The film starred Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman, and grossed $924,317,558 worldwide. The fourth film, Star War Episode I – The Phantom Menace, was released in 1999, and was the first of three prequels to the original trilogy. T he Star Wars film series created by George Lucas has become one of the most successful franchises in the history of cinema, and the latest film, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, is out this month. ![]()
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