The Phantom Menace may be the most hated Star Wars film but it’s the most important

Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace was released 25 years ago (Picture: Lucasfilm)No film has quite bore so much expectation as The Phantom Menace, the first entry in the Star Wars franchise in 16 years, since Return of the Jedi.
In the era of streaming and mass content releases, it feels hard to imagine that level of anticipation and expectation.We were about to get our first glimpse of the long-awaited origin story of Darth Vader, his turn to the dark side, and his largely unexplai