Wow! What a follow up!

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 1998)

After the success of Star Wars you would think that it can't get any better. Well it did. Empire is much more ambitious than the first one, and it shows. The story is more involved, it carries the story arcs from the first one over flawlessly. The Battle of Hoth is amazing to watch, as is the asteroid chase. Luke begins his training as a Jedi and we see in the tree that he is going the way of Vader. Han and Leia squabble but they slowly start to warm up to each other in a classic scene of love finding its way through dialogue that never mentions their love for each other. Yoda's philosophy of "do or do not." are words to live by. Throw in the smooth talking Lando and a light saber duel that is truly exciting and you got yourself one hell of a follow up to one of the greatest films of all time. All that and finding out that Darth Vader is Luke's father!