Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) by Richard S — 01 Jun 2018

Solo is an enjoyable enough adventure movie that is worth seeing, however, it's probably my least favourite from the new entries into the Star Wars ever expanding universe. There are some decent set pieces such as the train heist, Han and Chewie's first meeting, plus I loved the ending but I felt the bits in between were a bit slow and lacking in character development.

Alden Ehrenreich does a good enough job as Han Solo, even though I still firmly believe they should have given the role to Anthony Ingruber who already has experience playing a young Harrison Ford. There is a surprise cameo near the end of the movie which was a great crowd pleaser but it had me confused in relation to the timeline.

I'm probably wrong but I didn't understand how this character could be interacting during this time given what has happened in another movie. Not one for the collection but I'm glad I saw it once.