Astonishingly beautiful!

Rating: Null/10 (11 June 1999)

Are there enough words to describe just how wonderful this movie is? "The Empire Strikes Back" is undoubtedly the best film of the Star Wars series--it remains so to this day. I can't think of a single flaw in this movie. It's a MAGICAL film. Excellent sci-fi film! There is so much beauty in this film and it is presented in so many ways: (1)the snow planet at the beginning (2)the eerieness of the swamp planet where Yoda lives (3)the asteroid belt (4)and the cloud city, surrounded by the orange color of a sunset reflected on the clouds. It also has the best lightsaber fight scene of the original Star Wars trilogy--Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader battling it out, in the bowels of the cloud city, the moment when Luke learns that Vader is his father. Furthermore, it has one of the best endings in motio n picture history....the final scene that shows Luke and Leia looking out the window of the spaceship, with a galaxy in the background is amazing! You had to have seen this movie on a movie theater screen to really appreciate it. I remember seeing this film in a theater when I was a little kid, too young to really understand much of what was going on in the film, but still being mesmerized by the film. Since then, I've seen this film many times (I even saw it again in a theater during the 1997 re-release), and it has remained one of my top 10 films of all time. But one truly remarkable thing in this film is Yoda's last line. Obi-Wan's spirit tells Yoda that Luke is their last hope....yet Yoda replies, "No...there is another". In other words, it left open the question of whether the "lost" Jedi, Anakin Skywalker would return.