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Ron HowardCinematography:
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John PowellCast:
Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Paul Bettany, Thandiwe Newton, Joonas Suotamo, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Richard Dixon (more)VOD (3)
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Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes. (Walt Disney Nordic Den.)
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For someone who doesn’t like any of the episodes of Star Wars, I give this one a thumbs up. A surprisingly solid and brisk heist space flick, with Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, and an unknown Solo lookalike pulling it off. It's nicely entertaining, decently filmed, sufficiently suspenseful and action-packed, and the weird creatures are kept to a minimum compared to Star Wars, which just suits me. A nice surprise and finally can I say the best Star Wars movie?? ! 80%
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Han Solo wants money, a ship, freedom and to save his girl. So he decides to take part in a heist that even the galaxy's greatest madmen wouldn't dare. Solo: A Star Wars Story is a brisk, entertaining, old-school adventure flick that is fun to watch, has likeable characters and good actors, and tries to show the world of Star Wars from the bottom up, from a place where there are no Jedi, Force or ambition to rule the universe, just a desire to make big bucks and have a good time. And it's a lot more fun than we'd expect after the creative problems.
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“I hate you." - “I know." Solo is a great pleasure especially for familiarized fans, but I think even a complete Star Wars layman can take some things from it. It is primarily a fun adventure film (in places there is MAYBE a little too much humor, but it never exceeds a healthy measure) with the excellent Alden Ehrenreich, who did great at an almost impossible task - he acts more or less his way, he borrowed only some of those gestures and smirks from Harrison Ford, not particularly imitating him, and yet, he is Solo. The direction by Ron Howard is fine, the story is not stupid and has a lot of surprises up its sleeve, including the return of one very familiar character (but with the character’s return, people might be saying: What? How? Why?), and John Powell literally did an amazing job. With the help of John Williams (he also added a new main theme) he composed a great soundtrack that I'll enjoy listening to just like Williams' Star Wars albums or Giacchino's Rogue One.
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The name of the movie should have been Holo. A Generic Space Story. In that case, the film could have avoided showing tiring and dull facts that no one really wants to know but that are on a to-do-list of the film makers, like how Han came to this and that and how he got to know him or her. The story that the third movie of Indy managed to tell in 14-minute prologue with grace and at a frantic pace here takes two and a quarter hours. At the same time, it will not enrich the iconic character of Sol in any way. What is even more unfortunate is that when the film makers don´t want to please the fans or don´t try to create a fantastic show spectacle (a horrible sequence with a space monster or an uprising in the mine working), then there are many wonderful things (introduction, Madmax-style train attack, “spaghetti" westerns tricky ending), where it´s unique thanks to a refreshing sympathetically earthbound and dirty view of the Star Wars universe, that is free from all the padding of "we are one family, we save galaxies", it has obviously a lot to offer. And maybe the filmmakers will realize that as soon as we find out after seeing 20 sequels who Jabby's first lover was, why Boba Fett has shabby armor, why the second musician from the left in canteen from the original film plays the clarinet and not the saxophone etc.
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A solid summer diversion, but nobody wanted to see SW like that. It has fine action sequences, fine chemistry between Han and Chewbacca (whose friendship is surprisingly well thought out), and the occasional funny line or wink to past episodes, but the generic, strangely uncontained script just doesn't pull it off, and after a promising first hour, it gradually runs out of steam until it eventually flounders in uninteresting buddy conspiracy waters. It's no a dud, but the most famous space bad boy deserved a considerably more wholesome and fateful story, so in retrospect we have no choice but to bow again to Gareth Edwards, whose Rogue One is in a completely different league (which was fairly reflected in the box office)... 65%
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