The Empire Strikes Back

Rating: 7/10 (10 October 2007)

Yoda adds his name to the list of Star Wars characters. He starts out as a puppet and ends up as a computer generated image. I never liked the venerable Yoda. He is self-righteous. His wisdom is inscrutable. At 900 years old, he is not quite as old as Methuselah who made it to 969. The exotic names and grotesque creatures become hard to digest after a while. Lightsaber duels afford opportunities to doze. I saw this movie because I saw the one before it. Lucas made it because he made the one before it. His franchise was becoming a money-making trap. The dark, confusing scenes bothered me. A lot of the action felt contrived, as opposed to being something which occurred naturally.