Unfortunately nothing special

Rating: 4/10 (22 July 2018)

I'm glad so many people had a good time with this movie. As with almost every Marvel movie there certainly were some killer action scenes, some laughs and some interesting characters.

But for me nothing here felt special in any way which I had hoped for going into this. Even worse so, most of the typical Marvel-characteristics didn't work as well as in some of their previous entries, making them actually pretty decent: music, humour, CGI.
As for the music, the original score is fine but the incorporation of the Kendrick Lamar curated soundtrack didn't work at all for me. Most of the tracks were pretty awful so they should have been left out of the movie. Martin Freeman and Letitia Wright were the only ones with comedic timing. And the CGI was laughably bad at times, especially towards the end. Wondering why Marvel didn't put as much effort as usual into this. After the glowing reviews I had hoped for a somewhat grittier, less Marvel-like, energetic movie (maybe a la Logan, but in Cooglers style?) but got yet another generic, predictable, formulaic and overlong Marvel episode.