Painfully average, serviceable

Rating: 4/10 (13 March 2019)

Good
* it at least attempted to have its own identity
* the blockbuster portion was creative to show its 1990s Earth
* the location was one not used before in a marvel film (L.A.)
* the concept of the story was interesting, (not so much the execution)
* some funny moments
*a few practical effects looked good
* if you care about the marvel lore, this helps some, although it isn't necessary you can just look up what happens and it has the same effect
Bad
* everything that it does was already done better by another marvel movie (humor (guardians of the galaxy) , visuals (guardians) acting (most of the other ones), character development (iron man), the fish out of water concept (Thor), cgi (guardians))
* every aspect was painfully average and serviceable (cinematography, editing, writing, music, one exception was acting)
* it's not that Brie Larson wasn't the Actress for this role, it's just that she was likely poorly directed, she never really emoted, she was mostly just stone faced, which was ironic because her whole character was about dealing with emotion
* absolutely nothing was memorable
* there was a whole sequence in the climax that was full on copying a Star Wars space battle, sound design, music, pacing, the effects
* the jokes often did not flow well with the plot, the whole movie had to slow down and stop to say a joke (think of a jj abrams film where the joke is said, and it's related to the situation, then immediately the action continues, so it doesn't ruin the pacing)
* captain marvel was barely an interesting character, she had the bare minimum to make us care about her, with little emotion or relatability to her, this is partly due to the stone faced performance and poor writing
* bad villain
* the huge budget should have shown more, mostly lols like it went into cgi that looks bad