Solo: A Star Wars Story - 10 Best Moments

3. Darth Maul's Cameo

Star Wars Darth Maul
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Without question the most crowd-pleasing moment in the entire movie is the shock appearance of Darth Maul (Ray Park).

After Qi'ra leaves Han and Chewie to depart and effectively takes Dryden Vos' place within Crimson Dawn, she holo-calls her superior, a hooded figure, and explains her version of what happened (Beckett killed his teammates and stole the coaxium for himself).

At that moment, Maul removes his hood to reveal his familiar red-and-black visage, and after instructing Qi'ra to meet him on his home planet Dothamir to deal with Beckett, he tells her, "You and I will be working much more closely from now on."

While more casual Star Wars fans were probably confused by Maul's survival, it's nice to see another aspect of the wider universe brought to the forefront, especially as it allows the franchise to do proper cinematic justice to a character who "died" all too soon in the prequel trilogy. Get hype.

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