After a bumpy start, Ron Howard's prequel settles in and takes us on an entertaining enough ride. There's one great actor in it. And it isn't Alden Ehrenreich.
Solo is a fun ride for sure, but it feels too commercial. It is the least epic installment of the Star Wars franchise.
Solo is the first Star Wars film in recent memory that feels like it's selling something.
Strip away the nostalgia, the familiar Star Wars backdrop and take it for what it's worth, and "Solo" is a bit of a clunker.
Solo is technically a Star Wars movie, but it's one that has set pieces in place of a personality. It's a film whose base level is "fine". Despite some unique cinematography, Ron Howard's direction is staid, stolid, and completely without personality.
Solo is 'prequel bad,' and as anyone who really loves this franchise knows, there aren't a lot of things worse.
As an intergalactic adventure, it's mostly adequate, with some very successful elements, but if you stripped the Star Wars names and places, it's doubtful that it would spawn much excitement, let alone sequels.
This movie springboards off the flaws of Star Wars movies that have come before it, not the strengths... If new Star Wars movies are meant for a new generation, then I feel like a new generation deserves better than this.
