Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the Dark Side of the Force beckons him into the ultimate duel with Darth Vader.... (Full plot summary below)
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Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the Dark Side of the Force beckons him into the ultimate duel with Darth Vader.
Leave your thoughts about The Empire Strikes Back.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe best of three Star Wars films, and the most thought-provoking. After the space opera cheerfulness of the original film, this one plunges into darkness and even despair, and surrenders more completely to the underlying mystery of the story. It is because of the emotions stirred in Empire that the entire series takes on a mythic quality that resonates back to the first and ahead to the third. This is the heart. |
| Los Angeles TimesCharles ChamplinDespite a couple of drawbacks, The Empire Strikes Back is an immense amount of fun — big and splashy and breathtaking in its display of cinematic genius by a huge group of marvelously talented people. |
| Common Sense MediaCharles CassadyThe best of the original series, but the most intense, too. |
| Winston-Salem JournalRoger MooreOne of the great space operas of all time! |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldA stunning successor, a tense and pictorially dazzling science-fiction chase melodrama that sustains two hours of elaborate adventure while sneaking up on you emotionally. |
| Empire MagazineIan NathanNothing in the Star Wars canon betters this. |
| Rochester Democrat and ChronicleJack GarnerThe Empire Strikes Back is everything most Star Wars fans hoped it would be -- a colorful, exciting, witty and adventuresome continuation of the saga of Luke Skywalker. |
| Detroit NewsSusan StarkIn the glory days of science fiction, critics wrote about the 'sense of wonder.' That's what The Empire Strikes Back creates in us |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergHave you heard of this one? Sequel to Star Wars? |
| CinematterMadeleine WilliamsThe Empire Strikes Back has always been the best written and best shot of the three Star Wars films, and with the enhancements, it looks like it will have a good chance at holding the title. |
