A good movie

I already saw this movie but since I have it on Blu-ray and since I just bought an awesome new TV, I thought I might as well check it out again. Even though this movie turned out to be a flop at the box-office, a first in Stars Wars so far successful history, well, to be honest, I have to admit that I was actually positively surprised by the damned thing. I mean, sure, it was nothing really groundbreaking but when was the last time a Stars Wars flick had been anything really revolutionary? On the other hand, pretty much like ‘Rogue One’ which remains by far the best one of the new Star Wars movies, it was so refreshing that it wasn’t dealing with the Skywalker bloodline. Above all, the damned thing was actually quite entertaining. Indeed, even though Star Wars has always focused on the Skywalkers, Han Solo has always been much more fun and charismatic and this movie nailed so many landmarks moments concerning this iconic character such as how he met Chewbacca or how he discoverered the Millenium Falcon. Furthermore, even though I heard that Alden Ehrenreich had been criticized for his performance, I think he was actually not bad at all and he made for a convincing younger version of this character. In fact, I actually enjoyed all the characters, except for Qi'ra. Indeed, I won’t blame Emilia Clarke but her character was just seriously underwritten. In my opinion, it was rather obvious that they didn’t really know what to do with this girl as the cloud of mystery around her never got resolved properly.  Concerning the story itself, like many similar blockbusters, they did try to cover too much ground in one single movie and they could have easily split the whole thing into 3 movies. Furthermore, each scene was rather awkwardly connected with the next one, the flow of the whole thing was rather weak and it probably had to do with the messy production. Of course, I wonder how this movie would have turned out to be with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller still on board and it’s a pity that Disney went from some of the most entertaining directors at work nowadays to the safest and most bland guy from the bunch. On the other hand, I have to admit that Ron Howard has done actually a solid job after all. Anyway, to conclude, I don’t think that this movie deserves such a bad reputation, it is actually a decent Star Wars flick and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.