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Dark, sinister, but ultimately even more involving than A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back defies viewer expectations and takes the series to heightened emotional levels.
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This is a respectable sequel to Star Wars but not as good. Apr 27, 2018 | Full Review…
This is a respectable sequel to Star Wars but not as good.
Bruce McCabe
The Empire Strikes Back is the ultimate in fantasies, a visual wonder and a movie that should be recommended highly if only because it makes you feel good. Dec 15, 2015 | Full Review…
The Empire Strikes Back is the ultimate in fantasies, a visual wonder and a movie that should be recommended highly if only because it makes you feel good.
Rena Andrews
Despite a couple of drawbacks, the Empire Strikes Back is an immense amount of fun -- big and splashy and breathtaking in its display of cinematic genius by a huge group of marvelously talented people. Dec 14, 2015 | Full Review…
Despite a couple of drawbacks, the Empire Strikes Back is an immense amount of fun -- big and splashy and breathtaking in its display of cinematic genius by a huge group of marvelously talented people.
Joe Pollack
Another richly imaginative, engrossing and spectacular motion picture from the redoubtable George Lucas. Jun 29, 2015 | Full Review…
Another richly imaginative, engrossing and spectacular motion picture from the redoubtable George Lucas.
Charles Champlin
The Empire may not top Star Wars, but it certainly makes one look forward to whatever new surprises George Lucas and his band of cinematic wizards can conjure up for us. Jun 29, 2015 | Full Review…
The Empire may not top Star Wars, but it certainly makes one look forward to whatever new surprises George Lucas and his band of cinematic wizards can conjure up for us.
Arthur Knight
It is technically even more proficient [than Star Wars], has virtually the same ingredients and bursts forth into a world that still seems ripe for its special blend of nostalgically simple story-telling and complicated technology. Jun 29, 2015 | Full Review…
It is technically even more proficient [than Star Wars], has virtually the same ingredients and bursts forth into a world that still seems ripe for its special blend of nostalgically simple story-telling and complicated technology.
Derek Malcolm
Seeing the arc of Luke's daddy issues culminate at the end of The Empire Strikes Back blew everyone's mind. Jun 19, 2019 | Full Review…
Seeing the arc of Luke's daddy issues culminate at the end of The Empire Strikes Back blew everyone's mind.
C.J. Prince
The special effects are great and the writing is poignant, funny, emotional, everything you could want in a movie. Apr 18, 2019 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
The special effects are great and the writing is poignant, funny, emotional, everything you could want in a movie.
Rachel Wagner
Among the best sci-fi ... anything... ever. It has a darker tone, but still has plenty of fun, I'd have no problem putting it on and watching it all over again. Jan 26, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Among the best sci-fi ... anything... ever. It has a darker tone, but still has plenty of fun, I'd have no problem putting it on and watching it all over again.
David Hogan
A tight story, incredible twists, great characters and crunching action scenes, all tied up with a terrific ending - if you don't believe so, that is why you fail. Dec 17, 2018 | Rating: 9.5/10 | Full Review…
A tight story, incredible twists, great characters and crunching action scenes, all tied up with a terrific ending - if you don't believe so, that is why you fail.
Matt Hudson
Topping the most successful act in show business history is an impossibility, of course. But that's the challenge facing everyone who worked on "The Empire Strikes Back." They have succeeded to an altogether remarkable extent. Jan 3, 2018 | Full Review…
Topping the most successful act in show business history is an impossibility, of course. But that's the challenge facing everyone who worked on "The Empire Strikes Back." They have succeeded to an altogether remarkable extent.
George Anderson
The best 'Star Wars' film, an exciting and thrilling adventure, but also a sober and complex picture. [Full Review in Spanish] Nov 27, 2017 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
The best 'Star Wars' film, an exciting and thrilling adventure, but also a sober and complex picture. [Full Review in Spanish]
Sebastian Zavala Kahn
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