Solo: A Star Wars Story - 10 Best Moments

6. The Kessel Run

After the gang obtains the coaxium, they make their escape in what's one of the most iconic and debated aspects of Star Wars lore: the Kessel Run.

Almost immediately upon departing, the Falcon is met by an Imperial blockade, with a fleet of TIE Fighters quickly deploying from the ship. Though Lando reminds Han the Kessel Run can't be completed in less than 20 parsecs (at which point the coaxium will explode), Han insists it can be done with a shortcut.

Han decides to fly directly into an ultra-dangerous maelstrom to cut their journey almost in half, while Beckett shoots the TIE Fighters and Lando plugs L3-37 into the Falcon's navi-com.

As they reach the other end of the maelstrom, they face off against a gigantic tentacled creature, but Han manages to lure it into a fatal gravity well by ejecting the Falcon's escape pod.

However, the Falcon itself is still caught in the gravity well's orbit, so Beckett boldly injects some unrefined coaxium into the ship's fusion reactor, giving it just the boost it needs to get free from the well's pull, bursting into light-speed and narrowly escaping.

In addition to fixing the "plot hole" in A New Hope - where Han appears to refer to parsecs as a measure of time rather than distance - it's a thrilling, visually stunning sequence on its own merits, and largely does justice to the mystery and intrigue surrounding the famous heist.