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    The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to Star Wars: A New Hope. It continues the story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Darth Vader. Luke travels to Dagobah to train with Yoda, but senses his friends are in danger and rushes off to help them. He confronts Darth Vader who reveals a secret about their relationship. Han is captured and taken to Jabba the Hutt. The film ends on a cliffhanger, setting up the next installment.

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    The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to Star Wars: A New Hope. It continues the story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Darth Vader. Luke travels to Dagobah to train with Yoda, but senses his friends are in danger and rushes off to help them. He confronts Darth Vader who reveals a secret about their relationship. Han is captured and taken to Jabba the Hutt. The film ends on a cliffhanger, setting up the next installment.

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    The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to Star Wars: A New Hope. It continues the story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Darth Vader. Luke travels to Dagobah to train with Yoda, but senses his friends are in danger and rushes off to help them. He confronts Darth Vader who reveals a secret about their relationship. Han is captured and taken to Jabba the Hutt. The film ends on a cliffhanger, setting up the next installment.

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    The Empire Strikes Back – Star Wars episode V

    The Empire Strikes back is a continuation of the first film in the Star Wars’ franchise,

    A New Hope. Again the film was produced and directed by the highly capable George Lucas

    and stars: Mark Hamill as the main character Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia,

    Harrison Ford as the roguish ship’s captain Han Solo and David Prowse as the emperor’s

    villainous enforcer Darth Vader.

    Empire picks up where A New Hope Left off, with the rebels having just destroyed the

    evil Emperor’s superweapon, the planet destroying ‘Death Star’. However, the Emperor

    Palpatine is enraged by this act of defiance and sends his entire armada of starships to

    destroy the rebels. The rebels are based on the ice planet of Hoth when they are attacked

    by the full force of the Empire’s fire power. In spite of the attack, the skilled rebel pilots

    manage to fend off the attack and escape. While two of the main characters Han Solo and

    Leia rendezvous with the rebel fleet, Luke Skywalker seeks out the Jedi Master, Yoda, so he

    can complete his own training as a Jedi Knight. His training takes him to the Degobah

    system, where he meets the diminutive yet powerful Yoda. At first, Luke does not believe

    that Yoda is a Jedi Master, and is only convinced of his power when he lifts his space ship

    out of the swamp with only the power of ‘the force’. While training, he senses that his

    friends Leia and Han are in danger of being killed. He rushes to help them only to find it is a

    trap. While in the space station, he confronts his nemesis Darth Vader. Moreover, during the

    conflict between Luke and Darth Vader, a secret is revealed which horrifies Luke. Darth

    Vader is much stronger than Luke and manages to sever his hand with his light sabre; Luke

    barely manages to escape with his life. In the midst of the confusion, Luke’s friend, Han is

    captured by the rebels and sold to Jabba the Hutt, a planetary ruler with a grudge against

    Han.

    As we can see from the synopsis above, the story is action packed, and the pace of the

    story is relentless, keeping you on the edge of your seat throughout the film. I was

    particularly impressed by the twist which comes later on in the film, as it shows how all of
    the characters are interrelated in some way or another. Furthermore, the film finishes on a

    cliff-hanger with you not knowing what will happen to Luke, Leia or Han. Ending the film this

    way was excellent, because it made me want to rush out and see the next instalment straight

    away.

    Even though the pace of the film was fast compared to a lot of other movies, there

    were still some scenes which felt out of place and gave the plot a disjointed effect. For

    instance, the blossoming romance between Han and Leia seemed to distract from the movie’s

    main theme of a rebel force over throwing a tyrannical power.

    Nevertheless, the mind-blowing special effects more than made up for the odd shaky

    scene. The battle scenes on the ice planet of Hoth, were in a word spectacular. Pay special

    attention to fighter jets using a steel rope to trip up the behemoth like walkers. I knew the

    scene was not real as it was science fiction, but the way the fighter jets moved like real

    fighter planes convinced me it was a bona fide dog fight.

    The spectacular battle scenes were only let down by some irritating dialogue. Being an

    English teacher, Yoda’s jumbled syntax began to grate after a while. Instead of saying, ‘You

    must use the force’, he favoured, ‘Use the force, you must’. Combined with Yoda’s annoying

    dialogue, there was a robot, R2 D2, which communicated through a series of infuriating

    beeps and bleeps.

    In spite of the film’s flaws, I would heartily recommend this movie for anyone who is a

    fan of science fiction. This movie definitely warrants five stars.

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