Best of the trilogy

Rating: 9/10 (15 March 1999)

I know you're probably tired of reading comments like this all the time, but it's true for me. Admittedly, I'm kind of slanted towards this one, since this is one of my early childhood moviegoing memories, since my mom took my brothers and I to a really big theater in New Jersey to see it. This film explores the central characters deeper without sacrificing thrills and excitement, and while it's a more obvious set-up for the next movie than the first one was, it's still got a good climax scene that allows you to take away something good. Ford and Fisher are able to create something together too, and Mark Hamill comes off better than in either the first or third ones. In the book I read on the STAR WARS movies, it said Lucas liked this least of all, but I think he's wrong.