Empire Strikes Back

Pros: great acting, great effects, great pacing, the ultimate twist in the Star Wars universe
Cons: none!

I had always planned on writing about The Empire Strikes Back for my 250th review. I just had the luck (good or bad - I may not get as many hits simply because people are sick of reading Star Wars reviews) to have this fall so soon a ...

Pros: Even more action, adventure, and humour than the first Star Wars movie...
Cons: ... ... ... ... ... for me, none really

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back continues the epic story of the Rebel Alliance’s attempt to overthrow the despotic galactic Empire. Background from Episode IV (Star Wars) – [Episodes 1-3 can be discounted as they ...

Pros: Story, Action, Characters, Music
Cons: None, really

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)"May the Force be with you." Star Wars (Episode IV) was a space opera that featured state-of-the-art analog special effects, long before the advent of Computer Generated Imagery. ...

Pros: Returning cast; cool new settings and effects; darker tone; good writing; fun dialog; cliffhangers
Cons: None really

It is a dark time for the Rebellion... You didn't really think Darth Vader and his evil minions were going to let the Rebels off scott-free after what they did to the Death Star, did you? I didn't think so... And neither did anyone else. ...

Pros: Great FX, visuals, life lessons, mythology, and even decent acting
Cons: Adding Luke's yell to the Special Edition

In 1980, I was seven years old; three years before that I had discovered "Star Wars" and it rocked my little world. By 1980, I had started playing with Star Wars action figures, and making my own adventures of Luke Skywalker. In those pre-internet...

Pros: Great script, awesome score by maestro Williams, fine directing by Irvin Kershner
Cons: None.

With the phenomenal success of Star Wars in 1977, George Lucas realized he could continue the planned trilogy he had been outlining since the early 1970s. His original outline contained the raw material for Episodes IV, V and VI as well as the nebulous ...

Pros: A perfect, flawless movie.
Cons: Well ok- the "Two Fighters against a Star Destroyer?" guy.

While I remember - in vague terms at least - movies from my very early childhood like Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Star Wars, it was the Empire Strikes Back at the tender age of eleven that was the first movie I ...

Pros: the appearance of Yoda
Cons: Han Solo in carbonite

I was never too interested in Star Wars when I was growing up, and this movie is the reason. We caught part of it on TV one time when I was pretty little, probably six or seven years old. All I remember from that initial viewing was the image that would ...

Pros: Greatest Star Wars,  Characters, Acting, Action
Cons: None

When Star Wars was released in 1977, George Lucas could have had no idea, how successful this franchise was going to be. He created the most famous of science fiction movies ever, ones that were able to influence other ones, and to have a ...

Pros: .
Cons: .

The Empire Strikes Back is the superior follow up to George Lucas's original smash hit, A New Hope. It follows on the same story, with the empire looking for revenge after the destruction of their Deathstar, and ...

Pros: Introduction of new characters, particularly Yoda
Cons: Seems to drag a bit, more a continuation of events than a plot

***SPOILER ALERT – This review will contain details about Episode IV, A New Hope. See that first*** How does one reveal this movie’s huge and important quote without revealing too many plot details? It’s gonna be tricky… here goes another ...

Pros: Every part of this movie works seamlessly together to create a masterpiece.
Cons: None.

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Directed by Irvin Kershner. Story by George Lucas. After the destruction of the Death Star, spirits are running high for the rebel alliance, but the Empire has redoubled their efforts to ...

Pros: per
Cons: tipation

After viewing the first Star Wars endeavour yesterday, I was unexcited about seeing The Empire Strikes Back because I was suspecting further disappointment from this series. The first movie had been an all around disappointment - trite, boring,...

Pros:   Great special effects, has the best writing and a better director.
Cons:   Just a fun & flashy movie, nothing too deep is explored.

  This is the best Star Wars movie. It has almost everything you need for an action sci-fi movie. Cool planets, weird animals, great space alien races, bounty hunters, and things getting blown up. What more could a kid ask for? George continues to ...

Pros: A continuation of the best space adventure movie created yet.
Cons: You have to see Episode 4 to understand it.

(Note: These three STAR WARS reviews are in celebration of the STAR WARS TRILOGY films, to be released in September, 2004 on DVD as a boxed set, with George Lucas, the man ultimately behind STAR WARS, giving a creator's commentary, along with ...