Solo – A Star Wars Story 2018
- Director: Ron Howard
- Seen by this director: Eight Days a Week, Frost/Nixon, A Beautiful Mind, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, EDtv
- Based on the book: no
- Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandiwe Newton, Paul Bettany, Erin Kellyman
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Alden Ehrenreich – Hail Caesar, Beautiful Creatures
- Woody Harrelson – many
- Emilia Clarke – Last Christmas, Game of Thrones
- Donald Glover – The Martian
- Thandiwe Newton – 2012, Crash, Beloved, Gridlock’d, Interviews with a Vampire
- Paul Bettany - many
- Why? It’s Star Wars
- Seen: 8 September August 2023
No great expectations here but I hope it
will at least be entertaining. Han Solo is my least favourite SW character but
I’ll try to have an open mind.
I’m not going to tell you the story because
frankly, I can’t be bothered to figure out what it is. A big deal is made out
of Han Solo meeting Chewbacca for the first time but, to coin a phrase, what’s
the big deal?
As usual with SW, there are a lot of
spaceship battles –yawn! – and non-Earthians and bars and parties. Han Solo is
just as obnoxious here as the Harrison Ford versions (it must be said, however,
that Ford seems to be a good guy IRL).
You may have guessed that I’m not a huge
SW fan but I have liked the most recent ones. This seems to have reverted to
the first babbly six or so.
L3 is fun though.
2*
of 5
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