It had good lightsaber choreography that did nothing to offset the rest of the movie
π³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈπΊπ¦π¨π¦π²π½π¬π±π΅π¦π»πͺ Martyrs of Minneapolis, ora pro nobis
People have all this revisionist history about The Phantom Menace being good, actually, and that people loved it at the time.
I saw it at 13 after growing up on Star Wars and my most vivid memory is that it was the first time I left a movie trying to talk myself into thinking it was good.