TRIED TO LIKE IT

Rating: 3/10 (10 March 2019)

I really wanted to like this movie, in the end I just couldn't get past some glaring problems.
Fight scenes were almost unwatchable because of the nauseating camera angles, shakes and cuts.
Brie Larson, just isn't athletic enough to pull off the action scenes, running scenes, anything really. Not everyone can. They probably used a double for the low camera angle butt scenes.
Her acting delivery is just really bad, probably because that's the way she was directed.
Other performances were solid.
FX was good
Story was fragmented with all the flashbacks, flash sideways, etc., no smooth transitions between plot, subplots. There were no subplots really.
Annette Benning's character, changed from Male to female for.......reasons.
Now for the in your face feminism. There is no need to have flashbacks showing baseball, go carts, military training, bar scenes, that blatantly show her father, coaches, and other men berating her. Even as a child she was berated and dismissed, all in order to set up the "I've been dismissed all my life so now I'm going to pull out all the stops" scene. Movies can have a strong central female character without all the unnecessary beratment. The Male pilot who says "you know why they call it a cockpit" gets his head taken off in a CM fist blast while playing on the memory screen playback.
The final fight scene with "I'm just a girl" playing in the background just horrible, horrible.
To sum up, while there were a few scenes that worked, the movie as a whole fell flat, very flat.
Wait for the digital release.