This is the first major bomb in the Star Wars franchise and that's a shame because it has more to do with the expectations of the fans than the quality of the movie. Tyler and I went to see it the weekend it came out and neither one of us walked away disappointed or mad. More on that in a minute.Han (Alden Ehrenrich) is desperate to get out from under the clutches of Lady Proxima (Linda Hunt), a gangster on Corellia running children as her own private thieves. He and his childhood sweetheart, Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke), have a plan to run away but only Han makes it. He enlists in the Imperial Army as part of a plan to earn enough money to return and rescue Qi'ra but soon discovers being a foot soldier is not all it's cracked up to be. Sensing an opportunity, Han talks his way onto a crew of outlaws led by Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson), who owe a great debt to gangster lord Dryden Voss (Paul Bettany). Beckett agrees to pull off a giant score of unrefined fuel from Kessel to square the debt but the substance is incredibly unstable and they need a very fast ship and very smart pilot to pull it off successfully. Enter fan favorite and best part of this movie, L3-37 (Phoebe Waller-Bridge).
Okay, fine, Lando (Donald Glover). Happy now?
Did this movie absolutely need to get made? No. I don't know a single person who was dying to know Han Solo's backstory. But that doesn't make it a bad movie. It's a great summer film. It's light and breezy and there's stuff in it for casual fans (like myself) and serious Fans (like Tyler). He's read all the books, he knows the extended universe backwards and forwards, and he fucking loved Solo. What more recommendation do you need?
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