BY-RITWIK BHARDWAJ
7.2/10
IMDb 71%
Rotten Tomatoes 62% Metacritic
Release Date: 23 May 2018
Director: Ron Howard
Cast:
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Alden
Ehrenreich as Han Solo
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Woody
Harrelson as Tobias Beckett
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Emilia
Clarke as Qi'ra
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Donald
Glover as Lando Calrissian
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Thandie
Newton as Val
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Phoebe
Waller-Bridge as L3.
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Joonas
Suotamo as Chewbacca
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Paul
Bettany as Dryden Vos
Budget: $300,000,000
Box Office: $276,349,000(as of 7 June 2018)
It's a solid adventure movie, in the style of the great Indiana Jones movies, with lots of fun and intense action, witty dialogues, great humour and solid acting from all actors.
The movie starts on Corellia, and not the fairly idyllic Corellia of The Corellian Trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen, but a Corellia where Han's father labored making Corellian Light Freighters until he was laid off, and where orphans steal for Proxima in order to survive and escape is nearly impossible.
It portrays a younger more gullible Han Solo and Alden Ehrenreich did a magnificent job of playing the character. Clarke, who's best known for the role of Mother of Dragons in Game of Thrones, is spectacular as Han's partner in crime.
This movie does a lot with a few throwaway lines from the original trilogy, like the Russ Manning comic strip that showed us what happened on Orde Mandel. But it goes so far beyond that by showing us the life events that left Han Solo the jaded rogue of the original trilogy.
All of the action sequences are thrilling. The effects and costumes are all excellent. This movie has it all. There is a surprising and disturbing call back to the Clone Wars and Rebels cartoons. This movie tells a discreet story in the larger Star Wars galaxy while at the same showing how it fits into the larger tapestry.
The plot is clear and digestible. There are no illogicality and strange twists.
In this movie Howard promises us the fantasy with a touch of a criminality. In the film, there are notes of a western - robbery, chases, dashing guys. In addition to westerns, there are a lot of Easter eggs for other films - I personally saw the "Army of the Dead" and "The Empire Strikes Back."
In the end, we got a good movie no worse, but not better than "Outcast". It turned out to be a kind of western in the network of Star Wars with good humour, but with a bad actor in the title role and strange story arches.
CONCLUSION
Han Solo was acted superbly, Chewie was everything you expect, Amelia Clarke also excellent. The tie in detail to the originals was subtle but perfectly done.
Remember here is no Lightsaber action in this movie only blasters and no Darth Vader, but don't forget that, where there is Han Solo, there is always a fun.
Ultimately, it is a new Star Wars story and the baseline for the XI edition of Star Wars.
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