Movies

August, 1983

Compared with the mediocre competition (see Spacehunter, reviewed below), Return of the Jedi (Fox) is another rousing entertainment in George Lucas' nine-part epic derived from Star Wars. After this, the third film of the middle trilogy, he'll go back to the very beginning of the Star Wars legend, which has already made movie history. In its script, Return of the Jedi falls a bit short of its predecessors, and director Richard Marquand hasn't quite got Lucas' magic touch. But it's pretty breatht...