Saw Solo over the weekend. It was fun. I avoided as much as I could about the movie before seeing it, and was surprised at some of the cast. I knew about Glover as young Lando, and Emilia as The Girl Person, but Woody was a surprise, as was Paul Bettany.
The story was okay, had a twist or two, and like all Star Wars movies, moved along so quickly that you didn't have time to think about whether or not any of it made sense, so you just sit back and enjoy the ride. All the required bits were there, as mentioned earlier, and pretty well done. Maybe not how I would've done them, but no one asked me.
The Darth Maul thing was silly. I was like "Okay, so he's the local Sith dude, we know there are a bunch of them, like cartel bosses or whatever... wait, is this before or after Episode... which one was he in before? Ah, fuck it..." and I stopped thinking about it because I realized that the story had moved on and I was missing some of it worrying about something they're obviously not going to explain. And just to make sure we all knew who he was, he actually extended both beams of his light saber for no reason while just sitting there. Okay.
The scene with Lando and L3 was surprisingly moving. I bought it. She was right! It was played for laughs earlier (or at least I took it that way), but she was right.
Han shot first. Ha! It was the right call, objectively, and his opponent even told him so. That was a great scene.