Article 3QXBK Solo film review: Best when it embraces its favorite action-movie urges

Solo film review: Best when it embraces its favorite action-movie urges

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Enlarge / Oh, Alden, you beautiful fool, what have you gotten yourself into? (credit: Lucasfilm)

Warning: This piece contains some minor spoilers for Solo.

Solo, Lucasfilm's latest addition to the canon, in no way represents a standard Star Wars film. Viewers will encounter zero mythos involving Jedis and The Force. The film doesn't grapple with massive allegorical topics, either. Destiny does not face off against free will, while franchiseflagships like democracy-vs.-dictatorship and the tragedies of war merit muted mentions at best.

Of course, pushback started before anyone had even seen the thing to know that, with near-instant cries for a standalone Lando film or a smaller, original story impacted by the larger global (galactic?) situation (something like Prospect,for instance) instead. What ultimately made it to screen likely won't change those desires. In fact, hardcore fans may also walk away from Solo thinking more about why this film exists or what went into specific decisions rather than the core story itself.

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