Star Wars: The Coaxium Heist

Before I begin with the review of the edit, a quick word about my feelings for the original film. I saw it once at the cinema and that was it. It's not that it was a bad movie per se, I just didn't enjoy it and also I was very annoyed with how Han got his last name and that over the top silliness and excessive humanization of the android L3. So, although I didn't remember much of the original film when I saw this edit, these two things I remembered clear as yesterday! So my overall enjoyment of the original was around 4.

Now with the edit! The audio and visual technical aspects where nothing less than perfect! I couldn't find a single scene where I could tell or 'feel' that something was tampered with. Also, since english is not my native language and the edit doesn't have subtitles, I had the volume pretty high up, so I would have spotted if anything was off. So job well done here!

But, technical aspects aside, the important part, for me, is always the narrative. I can forgive editing mistakes if, overall, the editor has fixed the movie. So, did this "simple" trimming do anything for me? You bet!! I couldn't believe it! I actually enjoyed the movie much much more. It is amazing, sometimes, what the removing of certain brief scenes or some dialogue, can do for the overall narrative of a film. This edit is a testament that there is not always a need for aggressive editing (unless you are called The Phantom Menace). Sometimes there is a perfectly good movie to be found by just removing simple, but important, things. And in case you are wondering, yes, my two major issues that I had with the original, which I mentioned above, are completely gone!!

My enjoyment is 8 because it doesn't change the fact that I am not THAT fond of this movie, but still. Now it's on my radar for any future Star Wars marathons. So either if you did not like the movie, like myself, or even if you did like it, I can't think of a reason why this shouldn't be your go-to version of the film! I just hope someday we'll get subtitles also.

So, thank you DigModiFicaTion for your excellent work, thanks to anyone who read my review and may the force be with you!

Can’t say much more others haven’t. This edit is much improved over the theatrical of which I found myself bored most of the film. This version is pretty much nonstop action from the very beginning. The only ding I give it is there were a few times I noticed a volume drop, but other than that this is a man awesome edit. It makes a bad movie not so bad and more tolerable.

the improvement is basically secured in the colour grading changes, removal of han's name origin, and the removal of that egregious maul cameo (i think this indirectly makes qira more interesting, though my gf who watched with me and had not seen the original, felt that her end didnt make a lot of sense).

those brilliant changes aside though, i didnt love this edit. i think that a really fun chemistry exists between the main cast in the original (maybe a holdover from the screwball comedy lord & miller stuff), and this cut is definitely lacking in some of that with the methodical trimming of the interactions. this is possibly due to the downplaying of phoebe waller bridge's robot character (who i like, even if the metaphor of her character is weak and bad). one omission that annoyed me was the gag of lando flying away! i loved that nooo </3

i think that the coaxium heist is a better movie than solo a star wars story, but this cut is too drastic for me. some of the fun is lost, which is a shame in a movie that is mostly there to be a fun 2 hours.