Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Reviews
Top CriticI found myself glancing at my watch almost as often as I did when I was sitting through a truly terrible movie called The Island.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Irvin Kershner directed the actors this time around, and without the benefit of Lucas's personal affection they seem stiffer, more clenched.
Bullz-Eye.com
Everything you loved about A New Hope and more.
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| Original Score: 5/5
It is a visual extravaganza from beginning to end, one of the most visionary and inventive of all films.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Three Movie Buffs
The best of the films.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Arizona Daily Star
The most imaginative and emotionally connectable "Star Wars" film and, with the exception of "Revenge of the Sith," also the darkest.
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| Original Score: 4/4
eFilmCritic.com
Have you heard of this one? Sequel to Star Wars?
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| Original Score: 10/10
Baltimore Sun
Scattered and less focused, the second of the Star Wars trilogy to be re-released in the Special Edition format remains a deep pleasure to behold.
The Empire Strikes Back is a worthy sequel to Star Wars, equal in both technical mastery and characterization, suffering only from the familiarity with the effects generated in the original and imitated too much by others.
eFilmCritic.com
Each section of the film has a stand-out sequence that inspires hyperbole like 'best ever.'
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| Original Score: 5/5
Common Sense Media
The best of the original series, but the most intense, too.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Combustible Celluloid
The second act is very strong, cutting back and forth between Luke training with Yoda and Han, Leia, Chewie and C-3P0 fighting the Empire. And it's paced leisurely enough that you get to know the characters a little bit.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Cinema Crazed
Continues to set the standards for sequels to this day...
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| Original Score: 4/4
Filmcritic.com
I've always found Empire to be the Hamlet of science fiction, basically because nothing good happens to the hero in the entire story.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Flick Filosopher
I think I can recite most of the dialogue from The Empire Strikes Back -- I mean, even R2's clicks and beeps. Isn't that sad?
