Solo: A Star Wars Story Film Review

Finished watching Solo: A Star Wars Story, directed by Ron Howard and starring Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson and Donald Glover. The film opens on the planet of Corellia as a young Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) has hot wired a hover vehicle which he uses to escape to the space port with his girlfriend Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) in the hope to get of the planet only for Qi'ra to be captured which leads to Han to sign up for the imperial navy in order to get of the planet. Years later Han finds himself on the frontline of an invasion when he finds himself thrown into a cage when he defies his ranking officer. While in the cage he quickly gets himself out of danger from a chained up Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo) which the two soon become acquainted with one another as Han helps Chewbacca to escape the planet as they find themselves going into a life of crime when the board the ship of the criminal Tobias Beackett (Woody Harrelson) and his crew. Overall this was a good film as it divides into the past of Han Solo which allows the film to bring in some classic Star Wars characters like Chewbacca and Lando (Donald Glover) that leads them on their path to becoming the characters and forming the relationships that are shown in the original films. While the addition of new characters helps to bring an element of suspense along with some interesting twists to the film that helps to bring some unpredictability to the film as the stories of the classic characters are slightly predictable as it feature things that have been previously mention and referenced to. The film also features some great action set pieces that is able to build tension within scenes that brings into question of how the characters can get out of the multiple situations they find themselves in with the different factors going against them even though it known that the characters will get out of the situations. The film also does a great job in having some great interactions between its cast as the relationships that classic characters have begin to form thanks to the little back and forth characters have while also being able to give a nice amount of development to newly established characters. 7.5/10.