![]() ![]() It would be tempting just to spend the movie imitating Harrison Ford and even easier - and worse - to do a pale imitation of him. It's challenging enough playing a role that someone else created, let alone playing a character as iconic as Han Solo. And while the stakes are smaller, they're intensely personal for the characters, which keeps the audience engaged from beginning to end - and that's important, since it's no spoiler to say that we go into Solo knowing full well that Han, Chewie and Lando are going to be alive long after the final reel. It also helps that this is the rare Star Wars movie in which the fate of the galaxy doesn't hinge on our heroes pulling off their heist. MORE: 14 Star Wars Stories We Want Instead of Solo That's fun in any movie but especially so when it's familiar characters like Han and Chewie giving us the Ocean's 11 treatment. You've got your assembling of the crack team of untrustworthy thieves, the intricate scheme that inevitably goes awry, and the requisite double- and triple-crosses. ![]() ![]() Solo is, at its heart, a caper movie, with all the cinematic conventions that requires. ![]()
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