As a Star Wars origin film, I enjoyed it.

A lot of it felt contrived - there’s a lot of callbacks that will be grating to some but didn’t bother me. The Imperial Officer giving Han a surname reminded me of the “Darth… Vader!” scene from ROTS.

There are plenty of quiet scenes with long dialogue, that I thought gave the story a chance to breathe without the high-stakes frantic action of the other films.

1337 wasn’t as annoying as I feared she could have been. As soon as Lando boasted about her navigational database I figured her brain would have to end up in the Falcon.

And Han shot first! I didn’t see that coming but should have.

I do feel slightly vindicated as I had earlier predicted the film would end with a reference to Docking Bay 94 on Tatooine. That didn’t happen of course, but Han is at least heading in that direction.

Funnily enough the part that grated me most was meeting Chewie - either Han has superhuman strength, or Chewie was going very easy on him for some reason. Also not sure about the other Wookiee we meet - the mask looked like it would fit better on a Planet of the Apes set.

Overall, I put the film slightly below Rogue One and slightly above TLJ.