SOLO review

Unlike most people, I like EVERY Star Wars movie. I'm not one of those angry fanboys who 20 years ago cried that George Lucas raped my childhood, and I'm not spending my days now whining that the franchise has become a SJW agenda.

I still like them all, but Solo mostly left me just shrugging my shoulders. I mean, it's fine. It's a solid piece of summer entertainment. It has a couple standout performances. It has a couple very good set pieces. But it has a serious lack of that franchise magic. It's inconsequential. It's my least favorite film in the franchise.

Alden Ehrenreich is a decent Han. It's not entirely just a Harrison Ford impression. But thankfully it's more of an ensemble, so we get the always great Woody Harrelson, the sorely underrated Emilia Clarke, and best of all Donald Glover's fantastic version of Lando Calrissian.

The characters carry this thing, cause the plot is a snooze. And you can easily tell this film underwent a change of direction mid-production, when Ron Howard stepped in. You can tell there's 2 differing approaches clashing here, and Howard's more bland approach ends up winning. But it makes the film feel very slight.

And the handful of obligatory references to the greater saga are inserted in a very clunky way. There's one major one scene cameo by a previously dead character that is just a complete puzzler.

I don't at all hate what Disney has done with the franchise, but I am not too thrilled about the planned Boba Fett movie. Here's a hot take. The 2 most overrated characters in the whole saga are Han Solo and Boba Fett. Just give me my Kenobi movie.