🎥 Movies of 2021, 38: Solo: A Star Wars Story. Prequels like this are almost universally a waste of time. There are no stakes, because the characters that have to appear in later movies aren’t going to die or alter in any appreciable way. They can’t introduce any significant change; all new characters have to either die or get shunted off somewhere (or, ugh, get their memory wiped).
The only way to make them worthwhile is to make them either fun or surprising. Lord/Miller were apparently going the “Fun” route and were fired for it. And the new team did not take the ‘surprising’ route, instead turning out the most generic-ass movie they could. The actors here are all doing good work, but there’s only so much they can do with this.
