There is nothing wrong with Solo: A Star Wars Story! The movie is a lot of fun. It stays true to the origin of Han Solo. The Han Solo “origin” feature, Solo: A Star Wars Story, is executed perfectly by Ron Howard and smoothly written by Lawrence Kasdan.
Solo: A Star Wars Story is a non-stop roller-coaster ride as moviegoers dive into Han Solo’s past. Read on…
CelebNMovies247.com was delighted with the film, and we can see why there NEEDS to be a trilogy of Solo films.
Despite, the reports that Solo: A Star Wars Story is bombing in the box office, we feel it was bad timing to release it on Friday before Memorial Day. It should have had a Wednesday release and the numbers would have been on the mark.
As for, Solo, the story is great, the acting is on point and the overall movie is just fun to see how Han and Chewy ended up together. The movie is a good old-fashioned linear piece of storytelling.
What Makes Solo: A Star Wars Story so Good?
In the film, we follow the young Han (Alden Ehrenreich) as he escapes from a fascist planet, reluctantly leaving behind his love, Qi’ra (Emilia Clarke); enlists with the army of the burgeoning Empire as a means of making money to retrieve Qi’ra; and falls in with a group of interplanetary thieves headed by Beckett (Woody Harrelson) and his gal pal, Val (Thandie Newton).
During his fighting years, he is thrown together with Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), but you have to see Solo: A Star Wars Story to find out. Donald Glover is a perfect young gambler, Lando Calrissian. The villain in this movie an elegant gangster named Dryden Vos, played by Paul Bettany in well-tailored monochromatic suits and with a face that looks to have been raked by talons.
Instead of another Empire storytelling, Solo gives us a look at a fairly sophisticated view of how fascism works below the surface. But don’t think for a second that all of this doesn’t link to the first Star Wars. It is creatively linked. It also shows the beginning of the rebellion and how the Empire was destroying colonies, planets, and cultures as a way of cleansing the galaxy. The dark side was already doing their dirty work, but there are no Jedi’s in this story, just smugglers, thieves, and con-artists.
Solo is a great addition to the Star Wars Universe, so if you haven’t seen it, make sure to head out this weekend and enjoy a couple hours with some popcorn, a drink, lots of action, and bad guy stuff.
Review: Peter Ricci
