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Solo: A Star Wars Story


I saw this movie a few weeks ago and I have to confess, I really liked it. In my opinion, this is a movie that did not need to happen. With that being said, it was really fun.

After watching the initial trailers, I was not sold on Alden Ehrenreich playing Solo. However, he grew on me. Donald Glover is definitely a great choice as Lando. He attempted the cadence at times of a Billy Dee Williams, but I don't think he needed to. If his whole character is boiled down to his speech pattern, maybe there is something wrong with the character. Also, over the years, I've become a real fan of Woody Harrelson. He's fantastic in this movie.

Anyways, here is my short review of this movie.

Like I said above, it was a lot of fun. It is essentially a heist movie that has a couple of twists and turns. To be honest, it didn't feel like Star Wars and that was a good thing. There were no lightsaber battles. There was no mention of the force. You just have regular dudes and shades of grey in the morality of these characters. For example, Lando is almost a straight up villain in this film. What do I mean? You will have to watch to find out. The empire makes an appearance, but you don't see a lot of Stormtroopers here. This movie is less Star Wars than Rogue One was. Given that thought, I like that these standalone Star War films feel like different genres of films.

The action scenes were really good. Quite a bit of suspense, as you find in a heist movie. I ALWAYS love seeing the Millennium Falcon, so it was great to see it. In all the trailers, it had that weird connecting piece in the middle. That gets explained and I hope we never have to see it again. I don't need that space between the prongs to ever be filled.

After seeing Chewbacca for maybe five minutes in the Last Jedi, it was good to see him in action and seeing him as a factor again. He was a major component of the first trilogy, but was so marginalized in the last movie.

What was not great was seeing how Han Solo got his name. It was dumb and I wish we never saw it.

Surprisingly, I don't have much else to say about the movie. Partly because it HAS been three weeks, but also because while it was a good movie, it didn't really leave an impression on me. It sucks that this movie did not do better because it is not as bad as people will lead you to believe.
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