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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 66
Fresh: 52 | Rotten: 14

Though failing to reach the cinematic heights of its predecessors, Return of the Jedi remains an entertaining sci-fi adventure and a fitting end to the classic trilogy.

Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 4

Though failing to reach the cinematic heights of its predecessors, Return of the Jedi remains an entertaining sci-fi adventure and a fitting end to the classic trilogy.

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In the final episode of the Star Wars saga, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) emerges intact from the carbonite casing in which he'd been sealed in The Empire Strikes Back. The bad news is that Solo, together with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), is prisoner to the grotesque Jabba the Hutt. But with the help of the charismatic Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), our heroes and our heroine manage to escape. The next task is to rid the galaxy of Darth Vader (body by David

PG, 2 hr. 13 min.

Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Richard Marquand

In Theaters: May 25, 1983 Wide

On DVD: Sep 12, 2006

Twentieth Century Fox

It is not as exciting as Star Wars itself, which had the advantage of novelty. But it is better and more satisfying than The Empire Strikes Back...

August 13, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine

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TIME Magazine

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Reasonably fast paced for its 133-minute length, a visual treat throughout.

June 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety Staff

Variety

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With its feints at horror and pathos, the third Star Wars film is the most Disney-esque in its emotional outline, yet that outline is buried beneath an obnoxiously hyped-up pace that reduces the emotions to rubble.

June 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

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Though it looks almost too polished, a handful of eye-smacking action scenes were breakthroughs in precomputer cinematic graphics. And when the film moves, it does so with blazing energy and awesome noise.

June 18, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Peter Stack

San Francisco Chronicle

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Jedi still has its grand moments.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Winston-Salem Journal

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Roger Moore

Winston-Salem Journal

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The acting in Return of the Jedi is stronger than in the previous films.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

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This installment is considered by many to be the best of the first three Star Wars in terms of technical accomplishment and narrative involvment.

July 21, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

Ewok-filled finale less Force-ful than previous.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Charles Cassady

Common Sense Media

A fragilidade de Marquand como diretor e a crescente infantiliza��o da narrativa s�o facilmente constat�veis, mas ainda assim o filme consegue fechar satisfatoriamente a trilogia original.

January 8, 2010 Comment (1)

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Return is such a dud that no amount of [Special Edition] reworking could have saved it.

July 13, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

The finale to the saga's first chapter wobbles from time to time and the mythology grows a little woolly, but that spectacular conclusion is hard to resist.

March 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

The space battles are well-staged and various loose narrative threads are pulled together neatly.

June 6, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

Lucas and his cronies have done absolutely nothing to port this thing over for home theater other than to simply dump it on DVD.

September 12, 2006 Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com

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Joshua Tyler

CinemaBlend.com

The third Star Wars film, and the sixth in the series, begins with a bang as our heroes try to wrap up the threads left hanging at the end of The Empire Strikes Back.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

In scope and ambition, Jediresembles nothing so much as the next level of a computer game, with a new environment, new gadgets and new creatures.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

The problems with Jedi cannot be fixed even with the best digital software in the galaxy: the weak story, the bad performances, the burp jokes, and Luke's bizarre-looking hair mop.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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Chris Gore

Film Threat

First-class entertainment.

September 18, 2005 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Return of the Jedi est en bout de ligne juste assez satisfaisant [...] pour que cette trilogie se boucle comme �tant marquante.

May 22, 2005 Comment

Louis-J�r�me Cloutier

Panorama

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What were the rebel alliance thinking? To any military strategist with half a brain, the obvious way to defeat the Empire's finest shock stormtroopers is to deploy a tribe of furry midgets armed with sticks...it's so simple when you think about it! Well we all know what went wrong with this one, and it's probably where

October 30, 2006

xGary Xx

Super Reviewer

The worst of the original trilogy, it proves just how fast george lucas descended into hack territory after episode IV.

October 21, 2011

Joe McCall

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1. Darth Vader: No!
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1. Darth Vader: What is thy bidding, my master?
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1. Darth Vader: Luke... help me take this mask off.
2. Luke Skywalker: But you'll die.
3. Darth Vader: Nothing... can stop that now. Just for once... let me... look on you with my *own* eyes. [Luke takes off Darth Vader's mask one piece at a time. Underneath, Luke sees the face of a pale, scarred, bald-headed, old man - his father, Anakin. Anakin sadly looks at Luke]
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1. Emperor Palpatine: Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.
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1. Luke Skywalker: I am a Jedi, like my father before me.
2. Emperor Palpatine: [angrily] So be it.
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