10 Reasons Solo Is The Worst Star Wars Film To Date

6. Ron Howard's Flat Direction

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When watching a Star Wars film, you expect to see interesting spaceships, colorful planets and interesting futuristic designs. Solo, with its monumentally dull planets and relentlessly dark lighting, is a visual bore and Ron Howard just didn't do a good job with this.

Ron Howard might be the most hit or miss director out there - he can be absolutely great but he does have a number of duds to his name. Unfortunately, Solo just wasn't his day.

Compared to the direction of JJ Abrams, Gareth Edwards and Rian Johnson, Solo is directed with the passion and artistry of a low-budget TV film and there's a real sense that Ron Howard's heart just wasn't in it. Solo has a valid claim as the least visually interesting Star Wars film to date; the Prequels weren't massively well-directed but in terms of production design, setting and special effects they were stunning, while this is just dreary to look at.

We'll never know how Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's vision would've differed from Howard's, but it hopefully would've been less workmanlike than this.

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