"The Empire Strikes Back'' is the best of three Star Wars films, and the most thought-provoking. Chris Stuckmann reviews The Empire Strikes Back, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Frank Oz, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Alec Guinness. It's almost too much to expect that a sequel can ever top the success of the original, and I suspect that this will prove the case with The Empire Strikes Back, the continuation of George Lucas' enormously popular Star Wars.

Read the Empire Movie review of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Nothing in the Star Wars canon betters this. It's generally agreed that The Empire Strikes Back is the best film of George Lucas' initial trilogy (despite a latter-day shift toward the original's storytelling purity).

The Empire Strikes Back

If a critic had any doubt about the power of the "Force," a recent screening of "The Empire Strikes Back" — the sequel to "Star Wars" — proved conclusively that any review of the film is an exercise in futility. The Empire Strikes Back's "big reveal" may not have been such a big secret after all. This movie does do almost everything right when it comes to sequels. It builds on the first movie without taking a nose dive when it comes to It's why it's many fans' favorite installment of the Original trilogy. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Trailer. The Visual Effects are Still Good The Empire Strikes Back carries on the Star Wars tradition wonderfully.

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To call "The Empire Strikes Back" a good junk movie is no insult: There is enough bad junk around. And surely we're getting over the snobbery of pretending that it is undemocratic to recognize any hierarchy of culture, as if both low and high can't be appreciated, often be the same people. Star Wars series has become one of the most successful franchises in the history of cinema, and the latest film, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, is out this month.

The second film, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, again starred Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. The Empire Strikes Back" is not a truly terrible movie. Ordinarily when one reviews a movie one attempts to tell a little something about the story. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about "The Empire Strikes Back" that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot.