Luke Skywalker is trained to be a Jedi Knight and must finally come face-to-face with Darth Vader where he will find out that nothing is as it seems.

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2005)

I consider that Empire Strikes Back is the best movie in the Star Wars series (well, at least from the 5 episodes that have been released up to now). It has all the elements of a great movie: great performances (surely better than the previous Episode IV Star Wars), a good story, suspense and more...
I believe that SW-Episode IV lacks from the "Empire" at the aspect that it barely covers any of the basic story (its my hope that a "A New Hope" may look better and feel better when it is linked with Episode III)... Its also the only star wars movie (epis. 5) that I rate with 10(excellent): its unmissable for all movie junkies.
The best scenes in the film are of course the ones with Luke Skywalker training with Yoda and of course the ("soap-opera") ending that no one will forget when Vader reveals the secret to Luke. Its also better than the disappointing last installment in the series (ie SW-EpisodeVI: The Return of the Jedi) which has the same "kiddie" feeling with the also disappointing prequels. I hope (and can't wait for it actually) that Episode III (that comes out at May 19) will be better than Ep.1 and 2.