Solo: A Star Wars Story - What Does The Ending Really Mean?

2. Han Is Closer To His Original Self, But Not Fully There Yet

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Alden Ehrenreich does a pretty great job with Han Solo. He's not Harrison Ford, but is a good fit as a character who still has some of the charisma and arrogance, yet is more inherently a good guy with big dreams and ideals compared to the scoundrel of A New Hope.

This movie, then, takes him on a journey to becoming that version of the character, including the betrayals of Beckett and Qi'ra that cement in him the notion of not trusting anybody.

By the end of the movie he's a lot closer to the original version of Han, but his attitude in shooting Beckett, the forlorn way he watches Qi'ra disappear, and his sheer thrill at heading off to work for Jabba suggest there's still something of the wide-eyed Corellian youth in him yet, and the transformation is not quite complete.

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