Solo A Star Wars Story Review Han Solo Movie Can T Quite Make Jump To Lightspeed
Considering all the drama surrounding its production — directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired four months into principal photography by Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy, who hired veteran filmmaker Ron Howard to reshoot reportedly 70 percent of the movie — it’s a wonder that Solo: A Star Wars Story is as entertaining and tonally cohesive as it is. The film, a look at the early life of Han Solo and the events that turned him into the cocksure smuggler who gives Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi a lift in the original Star Wars (A New Hope), is less concerned with the overriding mythology of the Rebellion and more interested in being a straight adventure…a bit like A New Hope, in fact....