 you're alive all right welcome to come again TV I am your host here retro John and I'm over here watching YouTube and I'm watching a bunch of videos and I'm looking at people on Facebook and they're just happy that solo a Star Wars story is not had a good opening weekend so I'm here to say it's sad because it really is a fun movie and as such I figured it is time to do a solo a Star Wars story review because I saw the movie I saw the movie Thursday I thought about doing a review then I was like wow I want to see how this thing does I want other people see say first and foremost it is a fun movie the fact that you may have a beef with this Kathleen Kennedy don't let that sway I know you a lot of people want her out but I mean don't deprive you deprive of yourself yourself right yet of a good time because solo is not last Jedi solo really is a fun movie I dare say it's a good movie I think everybody did a fantastic job in this movie I will admit that it took me about maybe 30 minutes to get into the idea here that and I can't remember the guy's name the new son the new Han solo and it is Han solo not Han solo we find this out in the movie and yeah it took me it took me about 20 30 minutes to actually get into him being Han solo but I mean once you once your mind fixes itself that this is not Harrison Ford you're not getting Harrison Ford once you get through that because you're not disappointed you know it's not going to be a word you're told it's not Harrison Ford in the trailers and all the promotional materials so you go in here and let your mind adjust we have 41 years 41 years to the day a solo was released actually on the May 25th we had all this retraining to do that we're used to Han Harrison Ford being Han solo so but I mean the action is great the story is great now I won't say great everything's great everything's really good everything's really great I think the cast did a fantastic job I really really really managed to pull it off so what we have here is it's an origin story for Han for Han I'll get into that in a minute so we have the movie open up with Han being chased by I believe I believe somebody who he wronged he kind of cheated them in a deal or something and he gets in this speeder car thing we see it in the trailer a little blue thing and he's being a way we had a nice little car chase land speeder chase whatever we get introduced to the female lead character who was played by why can't I think of any names right now the frickin mother of dragons on Game of Thrones season we get we get introduced to her character and she doesn't really good job everybody does a little fantastic job they really do so things happen he has to run away again he has to run and he gets separated from his companion here and he finds himself the only way to completely run and hide away is to join the Empire which is kind of canon because and then I believe in the novels he did end up joining the Empire and in this he joins the Empire he wants to be learned to be a pilot the best he's the best pilot he wants to be a pilot and this is actually again it's in the description spoiler warning there are gonna be spoilers this is where we find out that Han doesn't know his last name he doesn't know his last name so the Imperial Guard says so you'll buy yourself so Han solo so this is where he we get the last name this is where we find out where Han gets his last name which I think is brilliant I love that I love the fact that we find out that he's essentially an orphan who doesn't know who he is and this is very Star Wars ask it really really is and then we find out where he gets his last name from solo because he's by himself which may again other than chewy it makes perfect sense for the Han character so he ends up joining the Empire he ends up in this and of course in the reintegration war and he's not happy he's not happy because he's not flying he's he's not a he's not a running shooting guy you know and he doesn't exactly feel the Empire is in the right really and this is where he finds Woody Harrelson's character some that bounty hunters but scoundrels you know they work for a living and steal stuff for a living and and he gets introduced to these guys and in the process of getting to know these guys my cat he ends up in a prison with the beast the beast who hasn't eaten in like three or four days so he's thrown in there with the beast and he's fighting with the beast and we find out the beast is a wookie named Chewbacca so that's pretty cool and this is how Han and Chewie meet for the first time and we find out humorously in a way how Chewbacca got the nickname Chewie you think would be obvious it is but it's still kind of cool that we got this once him and Chewbacca escaped this prison together and he asks him what is your name Chewbacca well I'm not gonna say that every time we gotta think of a nickname for you and he doesn't say it then but he is throughout the movie at some points by other characters called Chewie so again really cool not needed but I mean it was still a nice cool touching like I said this movie is filled with moments like that little moments they just like oh that's kind of cool and so Han gets with these bounty hunter or these these scavengers these I my mind is a blank tonight I swear probably not a good time to review if my mind's all my mind's actually kind of on something else at the moment anyway so he gets with Woody Harrelson's group and they accept them and him and Chewbacca and they decide okay well we have this job we have to do we do this job everybody gets paid and of course they end up doing this attempting to do this job and the job goes south we we lose some people and so then from there Woody Harrelson has to go to his the guy who hired him and say hey things went south this is what happened and he's trying to talk to this guy is trying out the guy not his boss boss I think the guy's name is played by Bentley vision from the Avengers movie God I can't think of names Peter Bentley that right vision from the Avengers he hired him and he's ready to kill Woody Harrelson that's one for Han steps and he goes hey I know a way we can write this and this is where we get the plan to get this these minerals this energy they have to steal this energy which is what they botched beginning with Han goes I know a way we can get more it's a it's unstable I will have to to race to go south to the nearest place to get a stabilize but I know how to do it and this is where we get the Kessel run they have to go and they go and they have to get this unrefined stuff energy but they need a ship to do this Han needs a fast ship to do this and everybody knows if you need a fast ship you get the Millennium Falcon so we get Lando are introduced to Lando Corisian excuse me we can introduce the Lando Corisian Han wants to bet his ship which is an amazing ship that he doesn't really have and Lando says okay I'll bet my Millennium Falcon as my Lando is bad not even a good Billy D but Han loses surprise Han loses and so but Lando is agreed of course for some change to help them to take them to Kessel to get this spot energy and of course a bunch of stuff happened a lot of action happens again I'm not trying to give a whole sport an entire story away but so I'm not gonna tell you everything unless it's important to the review here but things happen they get back into playing Falcon it happens to where Lando can't drive the Falcon it's up to Han Han this by the way is where we find out when when Han and Lando first meet Han ad calls Lando captain Lando Corisian and then Lando refers to him as Han to which Han responds it's Han but anyway because if you realize an empire is right back and return to the Jedi Lando constantly refers to Han so it was Han is Han we could still save him and Han's not gonna be happy you know it's Han but anyway so Lando can't drive the Millennium Falcon Han gets in this driver's seat and he gets to drive the Falcon and we find out that how well how the Millennium Falcon was able to run the Kessel running under 12 bar sacks basically took a shortcut he took a shortcut so there you go that that's that and they end up at the planet and again I'm not good on the new planets for the new movies I'm not still not completely familiar with all of them but they end up on the planet in Rogue one where it's obviously it's 11 years before New Hope so it's roughly about 11 years before Rogue one before that planet blows up they end up there to refine this energy and so of course they get there just in time it gets refined we're introduced again to these other marauders who prevented Han and Woody Harrelson from from robbing that train to get that energy to begin with and we find out that these good these marauders aren't marauders are not bad people they're actually the beginning of what possibly could be the rebel future rebel alliance it's kind of like the ball rolling in a little bit so we have Han who's starting to get that little soft spot in his heart they want this energy to help them of course they need to get this energy back to Voss we're also gonna kill them so it's kind of like do the right thing or live do the right thing or live of course as we know ends up having a plan and he does of course end up doing the right thing which ends up backfiring kind of because it turns out that Woody else's character doesn't want anything to do with this plan he walks away and we find out well Woody else's character said Han up with Voss by telling Voss the plan but as another twist Han knew that Woody else's character was going to turn on him and he had a backup plan and all hell breaks loose there's fire in the air there's gunfire Woody else went into taking stealing this energy source and kid basically kidnapping forcing Chewbacca to help him so at gunpoint to that willingly help so we get this big fight between Han Solo and Han's woman who he did end up meeting back up with later on she's working she's presumably forcibly with Voss so she helps Han defeat Voss and she says Han needs to go stop Woody Harrelson and she'll still still stay there and she'll get all those diamonds and gold and stuff pick them up and join him so Han steps baits up with Woody Halson character and who says you have one more lesson to be taught kid and before he even gets to finish Han shoots first saves this energy source saves Chewbacca the energy source of course is gonna probably end up getting distributed back to these rebel Marauder guys but as he does that he sees this ship that his girlfriend is on starts to take off and the reason being is Voss had a boss he answered to somebody and who he answered to is this guy in a hologram on this throne with a cloak like oh it's the Emperor but it doesn't like the Emperor they're not get in McDermon's voice but it's not him it's not the actor who played Emperor Palpatine because it's not Emperor Palpatine because she's talking to this is a hologram who we thinks Emperor Palpatine but we know by voice it's not Emperor Palpatine so he takes his hood off and it's Darth freaking Maul back in live action form and it is Ray Park and the voice is actually done he provided the voice for Clone Wars and rebels he provided Darth Maul's voice for that so they did get that actress about voice back and you're thinking oh yeah cuz any Star Wars fan who's been following the movies has been following hey how's it going who's been following the anime series Clone Wars and Rebels knows that he's still alive what's going on here I am doing a review on solo a Star Wars story so our spoilers I'm actually going over the main storyline right now so I just I just gave away the big surprise cameo at the end so and I loved it I loved it I really did I thought it was a really fun movie I thought all the actors did a great job I said at the beginning of the video here it took me about 20 or 30 minutes for my mind to work out that that's not Harrison Ford solo but once you get past that I mean he does he does a really good job I think I think he really I think he did a great job for what he was able to what he was given for all the pressure he was under I think he did a fantastic job Harrison Ford thinks he did a fantastic job force has already seen the movie twice and has praised it both times and he's not getting paid to do that so nor does he wish to promote a movie that he will never have anything to do with again so he when he says he actually likes this movie you can bet that Harrison Ford loves this movie so Harrison Ford Han himself gives a thumbs up so I myself gives it thumbs up I love the movie so the other movie ends we have Han meeting back up with Lando who took off left them stranded on this planet and he wants a rematch he wants a rematch of Sabaq and he gets his rematch but we find out how Lando managed to beat Han he had card ups he had a little device that shot the card he needed out right well he greets Han they hug they embrace and they sit down he gives them his rematch for the Millennium Falcon and he goes for his little car and his card ain't there so he's stalling trying to figure out what to do Han goes come on I'm calling it so ha Lando has no choice right no choice he has to play his cards he's got nothing he's got nothing over what Han has on purchase because I win so he fished that is how he officially won the Millennium Falcon and to add salt to Lando's wound he goes fully you had this card threw it out on table should proving that Han had taken stolen his card that he was gonna cheat with so he goes I want fair and square hence the line and Empire Strikes Back he goes your ship hey I wanted fair and square the Lando he the first time game he won he didn't win a fair and square he lost so but the movie ends with Han and as it should as it says this movie should it was hinted at earlier by the Woody Harrelson character that there is a big yeah big-time gangster on Tatooine looking for some people for a job and so this is where Han and Chewbacca are gonna go in the Millennium Falcon and you don't see Chewie really in the car and the navigator seat anytime in the movie except at the end and finally got the two guys Han and Chewie in the cockpit together punch it go to light speed credits the way it should have ended and it was just it was awesome I loved it does Chewie look younger not really not really I mean it's really I think the Wookiee's age really slow so in the trailer and in the movie when he says you know 109 years old you look great so as this is 11 years before a new hope then that that would that would make him 120 in a new hope so I hope I got my math right bad names tonight I can't think of any of the actors names that I'm talking about so yeah but there are didn't stick around but as a Star Wars movie so I and I haven't seen anything online I didn't so no post credit or any mid-credit scenes or anything like that so I didn't stick around for any of that but yeah all in all I mean the action was good the actors did a fantastic job there were some cameos some little like blinking you'll miss some cameos there is one joy one joy who you can officially say has been in every single Star Wars movie and it's not the golden one it's not going around like I said the huge cameo which I won't say now I see if you want to know I said it earlier you can go back and watch the video to find out the big cameo but that big cameo alone would just seal the deal as far as I'm concerned as far as how awesome this movie really was and I think there was a lot of backlash because of the behind the scenes issues changing the directors the last Jedi still has a really bad taste in people's mouths apparently this everybody's playing this Kathleen Kennedy which I can kind of see their point on her but I mean don't let the last Jedi damper anything I mean like I said I went in with low expectations because it's not that's what's it look like a bad movie just because of the backlash of this I know what happened behind the scenes of the movie so and I know the switch sometimes when you switch directors and this happened with Justice League they switched directors which one director had one view and Josh Whitten had a completely different view and it kind of really messed the movie up I can I'm happy to say that it that didn't happen here I mean it did but it happened in a good way because the other two directors wanted a more Guardians of the Galaxy feel which you could still kind of see in this movie but when bringing Ron Howard in to fix that he found a terrific balance in my book he found a terrific balance and like I said go go see the movie if you some movies have specials on certain days of the week AMC theaters on Tuesdays you can go see a movie on a Tuesday for five bucks go on a Tuesday after work or before work or something like that just go on Tuesdays if you're able to and spend five bucks people spend a lot of money but I highly suggest going to see this movie don't boycott this movie don't miss an opportunity to see a fun movie just because you have a sour taste in your mouth of the last Jedi I had some major issues probably a lot of the issues people had with last Jedi but overall I enjoyed the film it was by far not the best film in fact I would place it as far as just above episode 2 and episode 2 to me is the worst Star Wars movie they've done so it goes just above episode 2 in my book and that's just because how they handled Luke Mark Hamill isn't even happy with that movie that's a whole other conversation talk about solo so it was a really good movie absolutely really absolutely enjoyed it I highly suggest going to take a look at the movie and don't don't go in there thinking you know this might have been an agenda movie because I mean you can go to any movie and say oh there's an agenda here there's an agenda that just go in go in expecting a fun movie and you never know you might actually think oh my god this is a really good movie that was me that was me my expectations were low and I wasn't disappointed in fact I was overly happy you know that kind of felt bad for not having higher expectations and so yeah so there we go there's my review of solo a Star Wars movie I thank everybody who took place took took took the time and watched live and took part of the show and commented and gave their views you're watching this later by all means please go ahead and comment if you've seen the movie please go ahead and comment below what tell me what you thought of the movie and please like subscribe share with your friends it helps us a lot here at comic n dv and until next time my friends this is retro john and i am out