Their developing friendship isn't portrayed that clearly, and their motivations for becoming close aren't explained. So Lucas has the two characters meet here and-surprise, surprise-they seem to like each other. For example, we know there will eventually be a romance between Anakin and Padme. It also encourages him to gloss over key events because their outcome is a foregone conclusion, he forgets to bring them to life. More importantly, however, this situation leaves Lucas with very little freedom as a storyteller. For one thing, this project is limited by the fact that anyone familiar with the first trilogy knows the story's outcome, and it therefore lacks some of the suspense associated with a gradually unfolding saga. And apparently he's just not a sophisticated enough filmmaker to pull it off. They are very difficult to make properly. It is no accident that prequels of this kind are rare.
The film merely adds an introductory chapter to a story that has already been told, and stretches it out into a two-hour movie. The problem with "The Phantom Menace" is that he simply has no story to tell.
Lucas may have problems as a director and writer, but I've always thought that those flaws are balanced by his great storytelling ability.
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