Best of the Brilliant Bunch!

Rating: 10/10 (21 June 2003)

Episode V is the best episode of the Star Wars Saga.Although episode III is still to be released,I don't think that it will go that high level.
The storyline,special effects,dialogues,characters and acting is all perfect in this one.Plus we get to see Yoda and Boba Fett for the first time!
From the first 20 minutes to the last scene the movie is great and in shown in fullspeed.Highlights are the snow battle,the asteroid field chase and the legendary battle between Luke and his father,Darth Vader(Vader means father in dutch!!).The sequence in which Vader tells Luke that he is his father is one of the best moments in movie history.
Although the special effects are quite brilliant(Academy Award),the thing that really makes this movie so good to me is the dark way in which the story is told.As the title would suggest,the Empire truly strikes back and does so in a very dark way(Luke's hand is cut off by Vader and Han Solo is frozen in carbonite).
Like I already said,the story is brilliantly told which you would not expect in such a movie.The twists in the plot are never over the top(as they would be in episode VI)and the characters are really given space to develop.
One of the greatest milestones in modern cinema and therefore one of the best movies ever made! 10/10