In 2015 Star Wars The Force Awakens, say goodbye to one of the most famous characters of the saga, Han Solo. Most of us thought will be the last time we see this character on the big screen.

Two years later Walt Disney announced the production of the Han Solo origins spin-off and with that everyone was wondering where this movie will take place and how it will be?

Now the film Solo is released after a very troubled production where the film was done by two young directors, who were fired after almost finishing the film by Lucasfilm president.

Then Ron Howard was hired to shoot the film again and finished what Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and get it ready for the original release.

Solo tells the story of Han (Aldem Ehrenreich) and orphan made to steal in order to survive, he lives in Corellia with his lover Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke). Together they make a plan scape and find their way to another planet, but the plan failed when Qi'ra is capture before the scape and Han promise to come back to rescue her, so he joined the Empire as a flight cadet.

3 years have passed and he is already expelled from the Flight Academy and Han is an infantryman during a battle on the planet Mimban, here when he meets Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson and Val Beckett (Thandie Newton) both pirates who are stealing weapons and materials from the Empire Infantry.

This is the pivotal moment in the story when we see Han Solo will be a space pirate getting involved with the worst of the worst and also he will start acquiring debt across the galaxy.

The film continues exploring the story of how Han met Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian.

Ron Howard does a good job making this film entertaining and fun, Lawrence Kasdan and son Jonathan create an interesting idea of how Han Solo life developed to the point of seeing him in Star Wars: A New Hope.
The film does not explore social issues like Rogue One did, which to me is a more solid Star Wars movie, presenting a group of strong characters fighting for a cause and using the film as a metaphor of the problems we are living this day and age. Solo only explore visual nuances like the war in Mimban, which visually looks like World War I. The images seem to be lifted from Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory. The representation of Tobias and Val Beckett connects the dots to those people who came back to England after WW1 and later became gang members and criminals in order to have a meaning in their life.

Donald Glover does a great job as Lando Calrissian as well L3-37 droid (voice by Phoebe Waller-Bridge) which is the only character who talks about social justice in this story, sadly it felt flat. John Powell score is an excellent tribute to the Star Wars saga, with constant reminders of famous tunes of the previous films.
Overall Solo is an entertaining action-packed film, but at the end doesn't give you a solid message, Paul Bettany is a forgettable character and a weak villain.