Ok, so I'll just be real with you guys about this.
This is gonna be the summer of me reviewing movies late.
Deadpool 2 review was late cuz of exams, Solo and Jurassic World 2 reviews are late cuz
of travel, Incredibles 2 review will be late cuz I can't see it till I go to America
for summer, Ant-Man and the Wasp review will be late again, because travel.
I'm sorry, but just bear with me cuz it's a busy summer.
That being said, now I've finally gotten the chance to see both Solo and Jurassic World
2, so I thought why not review both in one video?
So, here we are.
I'll talk Solo first, and since it's been out for a while, full spoilers for Solo.
If you don't care about Solo or don't want it spoiled, there's a timecode in the
description that'll take you straight to the Jurassic World 2 review, which will not have
spoilers since that just came out.
Alright, spoilers for Solo, let's get into it.
So, I was pretty mixed on Solo, as far as expectations go.
On one hand it had loads of production problems, on the other the trailers looked pretty great.
A few people said it was one of the best Star Wars films, a few it was the worst.
And after watching ti myself, I can confidently say that I thought it was fine.
Totally fine.
Which is exactly what I was hoping it wouldn't be.
Quick side note here, I think Marvel has finally figured out that letting risky directors do
something different or weird with their movies actually yields good results.
And yeah, it took them a bit to figure that out but now they're there.
Star Wars I still think is catching on to that idea, and I guess it might be gone for
good now.
My point is, whether or not it would've been amazing, Lord and Miller's version
of this film would at the very least be interesting and unique and bring something new to the
table.
And look I'm not trying to be one of those people who gets caught up on how amazing a
version of a film that we haven't even seen would have been, for all we know that movie
would've been a trainwreck.
But my point is, it would've been at the very least an interesting to watch trainwreck
that took risks.
Because what we ended up with was what I was worried we'd end up with, a totally safe,
competent film that isn't really memorable at all to me.
It has some great moments that stand out, it has some terrible moments that stand out,
but overall I just found this to be mostly a nothing movie.
And that's my biggest complaint with it.
Look, there is still some good stuff, in fact I'd say most of the movie is at least good.
Alden Ehrenreich I've been rooting for cuz he was my favorite part of Hail Caesar, he
was amazing in that, and I actually thought he did a good job here.
He was charming and for the most part felt like Han Solo, even though sometimes yeah
you might forget that this is supposed to be Harrison Ford in a few years.
But I liked him.
Donald Glover, maybe the best part of the movie.
You never forget who he's supposed to be, he embodies young Lando perfectly for me,
he has that charisma and charm, yeah, if anyone's coming out of this looking good it's Donald
Glover.
Woody Harrelson, for the most part, pretty great.
I also really liked Paul Bettany.
He doesn't do anything crazy in terms of acting but as a villain, yeah he was pretty intimidating.
There are also a few standout action moments, that train heist in particular I quite enjoyed.
There are also moments that I think are genuinely incredible scattered throughout this.
The Kessel Run for example, and a few scenes with Lando.
There are some excellent shots, and I'd say for the most part visual effects wise,
yeah this is fantastic.
The CGI, the practicals tuff, the sets, all great.
I also just love this Star Wars world and how massive it is and I like seeing new locations
with new aliens and that kinda stuff.
Oh also on the action I feel like I should mention, I saw this movie in 4D.
Which I know might sound weird but my cinema just added it and I wanted to give it a shot
and basically it's where the seats move with the emovie and you get sprayed with water
and get hit in the back or shot with little blasts of air in the back of the head you
know when it corresponds in the movie.
So just know that that was there, but it didn't distract me from the actual movie.
If anything it just made some of the chase scenes cooler.
But for full transparency, yeah this was a little bit of a weird experience in the actions
scenes at least.
Still, don't think this affected my overall thoughts on he movie in a major way or anything.
Some of this movie I also really enjoyed when it starts to feel like a fun adventure romp,
once it gets going it can even start to feel a little Indiana Jones in parts, which I loved.
The problem is, those parts are scattered throughout the movie and the rest can often
drag.
I also thought some fan service was really good, like some music cues, when the Falcon
shows up for the first time.
References that were fun and subtle I enjoyed, however there were some that were just so
incredibly obvious and cringeworthy.
Like at a few points the "foreshadowing" or references to hey what's gonna come later
on reminded me of the prequels.
And yeah, I guess I'm starting to get more negative, so let's just full ahead get to
what I didn't like.
Now, I've already talked about how my main complaint with this would be how just safe
and lifeless it all feels, but I also have a few other negatives.
Cast wise, Emilia Clarke, I don't get it.
I know she's a good actress, I've seen her be a great actress.
So why is it whenever she appears in a movie, she is….not a great actress.
To be fair I haven't seen this one.
Look, she wasn't terrible or anything, but overall her performance didn't sell me on
her character, especially the darker aspects of her, at all.
Also this is more the writing's fault I suppose, but she has some of the worst lines
in the movie, and a few actually made me cringe.
There's that one she has about smiling at the end that felt incredibly unnatural, and
also the "you're the good guy part."
I'm willing to stack that more up to the writing though.
Speaking of good actors being bad, Woody Harrelson like I said I enjoyed throughout most of the
movie, but his death scene was up there with Marion Cotillard from Dark Knight Rises for
me in unintentionally hilarious.
And that thing he mentioned at the very start, the space trumpet or whatever instrument he
wanted to play.
As soon as he mentioned that I was like, well he's 100% gonna die and he's 100% gonna
mention that space trumpet right before he dies.
And yeah, of course that happens.
That's not the only predictable moment, there are a lot scattered throughout the film.
Like at the end, oh I wonder if Emilia Clarke's gonna stab Paul Bettany oh yeah she totally
stabbed Paul Bettany.
Also on Woody Harrelson's character, I get that he's this badass criminal kinda guy
and he's hardened to this sort of life, but he really felt like nothing after his
wife died.
Like 30 seconds after he was like alright Han let's go do this mission, and considering
how much they set that up I just found that kind of odd.
Maybe that's fitting though, because I also felt exactly 0 emotion throughout nearly all
of the film.
Sort of relates back to the blandness problem for me, i just felt nothing really from this
in terms of emotion besides the occasional enjoyment and/or boredom.
Boredom's an emotion right?
I mentioned this before but on the whole the movie is just kinda slow in parts.
Like once it gets going, you know what it's quite enjoyable.
But there are just so many points where it kinda just drags and I actually found myself
sort of bored.
It goes on for wayyy too long, like I thought the movie was gonna end way before it actually
did, and it just kept going and going.
The third act also just sort of falls apart for me, and it's just betrayal after betrayal
and it felt like the movie was trying to pull the rug out from under me but I wasn't invested
in any of these characters so it really just did nothing for me.
In terms of smaller things, the humor didn't really work for me.
And also, I know people get annoyed when you say this movie didn't need to be made, and
look, if people enjoyed this movie, then I'm glad it was made, I'm not gonna wish that
this be taken away from people or something.
But at points, personally I did just feel the pointlessness of it all.
Like some characters and some things in movies it's cool to find out their backstory, some
things though I feel are best left to the imagination.
Part of what makes certain characters so cool is the stuff you don't know about them,
and taking away that mystery is usually gonna be anticlimactic, and in a movie that I didn't
think was that exceptional that certainly was the case.
I mean, Han Solo is the coolest character in Star Wars to me, and you can imagine where
he got his awesome gun and his awesome name and all that.
And here, I think the part where I realized this is when he gets his name.
He gets it from some imperial officer, ok.
That's siginciatly less cool than most things I could've imagined.
That's just one example, I'm just saying personally of all the things to make movies
about in Star Wars, I think Han Solo's "origin" wouldn't be the top of my list.
Han Solo adventures, sure thing!
But how he came to be, sort of takes away a bit from the character for me.
So overall, I think Solo is the most average of these latest Star Wars movies.
It doesn't quite feel like a totally empty corporate product because of a few standout
moments and performances, but it's closer to that than I was hoping it would be.
I got a kick out of some of it, both the unironically good and the unintentionally funny, but all
in all this isn't something I ever think I'll revisit.
I'll give Solo a 7/10 (and yes, I know some people will say that sounds way too high considering
what I just said, but that's a very average grade for me, for what I found to be a very
average movie).
Alright, so now we're moving on to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Let's get into it.
*clip* My expectations for this weren't super high.
I mean I enjoyed Jurassic World, it's a good fun time, but I don't think it's the
best movie ever or anything, and a lot of the trailers for this did not look that promising,
but hey this franchise is….mostly solid so far and the director is pretty good, so….yeah
medium expectations.
And I guess they were met?
This is a little similar to Solo in the sense that, I thought it was alright.
I liked and disliked different things than I did in Solo, but again, yeah I thought it
was fine.
Look cast-wise, this is pretty good.
And minor spoiler here, if you care like how long a certain character is in this movie,
then yeah, minor spoiler, you can skip to this time.
5, 4 3, 2, 1.
So anyway yeah Chris Pratt is back and he's still very charming and charismatic, Bryce
Dallas Howard is pretty solid, the new girl is good and that comic relief guy who was
in that Paper Towns movie didn't get as annoying as I initially thought he would.
Some of his parts actually made me chuckle, although occasionally he does go a bit too
over the top.
Then that minor spoiler, just saying, jeff Goldblum is in this for about 2 minutes max?
Which I mean, I guess shouldn't disappoint me, but it just left me wondering, why reveal
that in the trailer?
That could've been a really fun surprise cameo, instead, you've shown like the majority
of his lines in the trailer.
Visual effects wise, most of this is pretty stellar, and this also has some fantastic
shots in it.
Like visually stunning shots worthy of being on that one perfect shot twitter account.
And yes, that's how I'll compliment shots sometimes from now on.
I also liked the ending, even though it's pretty ridiculous and contrived how it all
gets there.
But the way it sets up for a third film, no spoilers, but I'm genuinely interested to
see how this concept for a third film would play out.
The thing is though, it's just not a memorable movie to me.
Like I saw it and I was like alright, that was a movie.
It had some fun standout moments but overall, a little like Solo, it just felt totally fine
to me.
Nearly everything played out exactly how I expected it to, and yes part of that might
be because we saw a lot in the trailer but even the stuff beyond what we saw in the trailer,
I was like this this and that are gonna happen and yep exactly that happened.
The only thing that caught em slightly off guard was that ending.
The new big dinosaur in his didn't particularly impress me, there are some really stupid moments
and moments that make no sense, but hey the Jurassic Park movies have those quite a bit.
Some character stuff I didn't really buy, like I don't really buy that the Bryce Dallas
Howard character would care so much about the dinosaurs now, to the extreme degree she
does in this film, even after everything she learned and experienced in the first movie.
The movie also gets very repetitive, like especially the final act it's just screamin
and explosions and dinosaur creeping up and then a dino jump scare and that just kept
happening over and over again and I'm just not really engaged in it.
I can understand why a lot of people will find this fun and there were a few moments
that stood out in that finale that were kinda interesting, but ultimately it just sort've
devolved into just noise to me.
I know I might sound like an old grandpa, but really.
I was watching all this crazy stuff happening and I was thinking, I shouldn't be disinterested
in all this that's going on, but I sort of am.
Overall, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a movie I saw and then remembered very little
about the next morning.
I'm glad I took notes the night I saw it cuz otherwise I wouldn't have a lot to say,
and even now, not that much to say.
I don't think I'd ever watch it again, but for a big summer popcorn movie, yeah it's
pretty good.
It's got likable leads and good visual effects and all the dinosaur action you could ask
for, and some genuinely great moments.
That opening scene, for example, I thought was really awesome.
For me personally it just wasn't really anything special and it's not a film I'd
say you have to run out and see.
I'll give Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom also a 7/10.
Again, average grade for average movie that was average for somewhat different reasons.
So those were my thoughts on Solo and Jurassic World 2.
What did you think of it?
Let me know all of your thoughts down below in the comments.
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