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Solo: A Star Wars Story - Film Review

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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... ...in an lost era known to us as 1977, audiences were introduced for the first time to an outlaw by the name of Han Solo - a rugged, smooth-talking smuggler who swaggered his way into fan's hearts across the world. Now 41 years, 3 film appearances and 1 new actor later, he finally has his own big-screen epic, and it certainly doesn't disappoint. From the start,  Solo: A Star Wars Story  is overflowing with references and call-backs to Han's backstory as fleshed out by Harrison Ford four decades before. From the formation of the galaxies greatest friendship in Han and Chewie, to the depiction of the infamous Kessel Run, director Ron Howard pulls out all the stops as he tells the incredible story of our favourite smuggler. The plot is great, if a bit straight-forward. Han's journey from a pick-pocket on the streets of Correllia, to a foot soldier in the rampant army of the Empire, to his eventual rise to talented pilot-smug...