An utterly zero-stakes movie with some good performances (Harrelson and Bettany) some terrible ones (Clarke) and a distracting film-long impression of Ford by Ehrenreich. Which, ticks some boxes but it takes you out of the movie in doing so.
I was just bored. There's no one thing to say it failed on other than it's plot after the first act is just an hour and a bit of "no really, Lucas MEANT parsecs as distance, not time!"
A much braver version of this film would expand the whole first act into a film, bring in more of the unseen universe/syndicates and perhaps end with Han being invited to a card game where you all know he's going to win the falcon. 45mins+ of the runtime is just CGI exposition of things you already know. At least the prequels had a full story to tell and weren't based solely on two lines of dialogue.
Just unnecessary, unfortunately. The one upside is it seems to have killed further "Star Wars stories", at least until they work out why Rogue One worked and this didn't (hint: tying the last act to things you know is how you do it, you don't make it the whole plot).
Review by KhablamBlockedParent2018-09-18T22:08:29Z
An utterly zero-stakes movie with some good performances (Harrelson and Bettany) some terrible ones (Clarke) and a distracting film-long impression of Ford by Ehrenreich. Which, ticks some boxes but it takes you out of the movie in doing so.
I was just bored. There's no one thing to say it failed on other than it's plot after the first act is just an hour and a bit of "no really, Lucas MEANT parsecs as distance, not time!"
A much braver version of this film would expand the whole first act into a film, bring in more of the unseen universe/syndicates and perhaps end with Han being invited to a card game where you all know he's going to win the falcon.
45mins+ of the runtime is just CGI exposition of things you already know. At least the prequels had a full story to tell and weren't based solely on two lines of dialogue.
Just unnecessary, unfortunately. The one upside is it seems to have killed further "Star Wars stories", at least until they work out why Rogue One worked and this didn't (hint: tying the last act to things you know is how you do it, you don't make it the whole plot).