Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi Reviews
eFilmCritic.com
[Hamill] gives what is immediately recognizable as the most irritating lead performance in a blockbuster film in recent memory.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticIn scope and ambition, Jediresembles nothing so much as the next level of a computer game, with a new environment, new gadgets and new creatures.
Urban Cinefile
Slower, longer and less powerful than Episodes IV and V, Return of the Jedi closes this extraordinary trilogy more with a whimper than a bang,
The old Star Wars gang are back doing what they've done before, but this time with a certain evident boredom.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Cincinnati Enquirer
Falls short of the high standards set by the opening chapters.
Film Threat
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
ESplatter
Return is such a dud that no amount of [Special Edition] reworking could have saved it.
E! Online
The force isn't entirely with the re-release of this computer- altered, warm-and-fuzzy Star Wars sequel.
The acting in Return of the Jedi is stronger than in the previous films.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Baltimore Sun
The film reaches a density of emotion in its last 20 minutes that only a few other movies can approach.
Common Sense Media
Ewok-filled finale less Force-ful than previous.
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| Original Score: 4/5
