Simply the Best

Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2000)

"The Empire Strikes Back" belongs to that rare breed of sequels being better than their hailed forerunners. There is more suspense than in "Star Wars" (1977), there are deeper developed characters than in "Star Wars" and it is better written (Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett no less!) than "Star Wars". After all, and especially after that computer animated waste of anyone´s time called, among other things, "The Phantom Menace" (1999), the suspicion that George Lucas might have invented the Star-Wars-Universe but isn´t its major artistic force is rooted in evidence.