15 PERFECT Scenes In Otherwise Disappointing Movies
5. Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace: Quadruple Stranded Climax
The Phantom Menace remains the poster-child for disappointing movies, but is this deserved? Well, yes. It's not without its moments and it's better than Solo: A Star Wars Story and the animated Clone Wars movie, meaning it isn't the worst Star Wars movie, but it's too poorly-written and badly acted to work.
That being said, the film often delivers as a spectacle and one thing that is frequently overlooked about it is that the film's finale is genuinely brilliant.
The finale involves four individual strands: the battle between the Gungans and the droid army, the space mission to take down the Trade Federation's control ship, the battle to retake Theed Palace and, of course, the lightsaber duel between Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul.
These four strands are all highly thrilling on their own, but edited together they make for an absolutely spectacular and wonderfully exciting final act that is the one time the film really captures the joys of the original trilogy. In particular, the lightsaber fight is magnificent and remains a well-known example of a great scene in a disappointing movie.