D-Day77 Review of Solo: A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

JarJar is no longer worst thing about star wars

[25 May 2018]

Well, I wanted to give this a chance, I had faith in Ron Howard and the cast was impressive. However, I have to say I thought this was weak, for me I think Star Wars is now dead, for other people it might still be entertaining but for me the magic has gone. To start with Alden isn't too bad but he lacks the roguish charm of Harrison, also he is revered to many times as 'boy' or 'kid' yet he looks like he's in his 30's! Plus no chin scar origin which would've been nice! Secondly I believe we have a new contender for most annoying character ever L3 has taken JarJars crown! Thirdly no real villain, paul bettany as always delivers a great performance but only so much he can do with poor writing and basically a lack of a decent story. Ok so we get answers to the Kessel run and how Han got the falcon, plus a nice meeting between Han and Chewie but storywise nowt seemed to grab my interest. What's all this about Han and his gold dice, am I missing them once the original trilogy or is this just a weak nod to last jedi same with the let's mention scariff to tie in with the far superior Rogue One! The characters lacked emotion and depth and the ending! Well, how is Darth Maul alive and ignoring that why did me need to fire up his sabre? To me that was a reason to reconfirm that this is actually a Star Wars film as not much else felt like this is supposed to be in the same universe.