Review of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 01 Jan 2000
The 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.
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This review of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) was written by Roger Ebert and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 01 Jan 2000.
The Empire Strikes Back has generally received very positive reviews.
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