Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, R2-D2 and C-3PO have been sent to try and free him. After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to make Vader return from the dark side of the Force.
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June 05, 2016
It's largely captivating at gigantic SFX and VFX spectacle; it's good at family movie and it's trivial at adult movie.
December 14, 2015
With this last of the central Star Wars cycle, there is the sense of the closing of a circle, of leaving behind real friends. It is accomplished with a weight and a new maturity that seem entirely fitting, yet the movie has lost none of its sense of fun.
November 16, 2015
Lucas has once again recycled the B movies of his youth: jungle movies, gangster movies, pirate movies, you name it. He culls bits from them that still have oomph and mounts them with a Sesame-Street zap.
December 15, 2015
It's everything it ought to be -- glorious, exhilarating, exciting, absorbing, technically wondrous. But there also is something bittersweet in the knowledge that, with Jedi, we are bidding a fond farewell to all of the characters we got to know so well.
November 05, 2015
Highly entertaining.
December 15, 2015
There are all sorts of hints in the latest escapade (notionally directed by Richard Marquand) that we are meant to be taking it seriously.
December 14, 2015
The film has special effects so incredible that it will become the standard by which future efforts are measured, and it leaves the audience cheering and happy.
December 17, 2015
...a capper to a solid trilogy that's nevertheless not quite the flawless work its reputation would seem to indicate.
December 19, 2015
'Jedi' takes a little longer to get going, but once it does, the Star Wars finale ends on a satisfying and rewarding note for fans who watch it for the first of 50th time.
September 26, 2014
...when Luke and Darth Vader face off before the drooling Emperor, the franchise comes to its rightful fruition.
December 14, 2015
The characters and dialogue get lost somewhere between the bug-eyed monsters and the exploding spaceships, but it is all so much fun it probably really does not matter a whole lot.
November 05, 2015
Though the 1983 film's effects seem almost quaint by today's awesome standards, Jedi has something the newer movies don't: characters we care about, not to mention a plot that involves both them and us.
