Nostalgic Marvel movie

Rating: 7/10 (7 March 2019)

Just had the opportunity to see it on an early screening in original language.
This movie is very similar in concept to Rogue One: per se, it is a relatively okay movie, but a lot of elements boost up the appreciation of fans of the shared universe.
Let's start with the positives.
Captain Marvel has a lot of connections to the MCU, it hints at several origin stories, shows us a number of familiar elements and characters, and also provides some very subtle connections. There's nothing that seemed to me revelatory as for Infinity War's aftermath in the plot of this film, the connections were strong with existing MCU movies instead.
Deaged Nick Fury is very realistic (which gives us hopes for The Irishman), I haven't seen anything this well done in cinema so far. This film has some of the best Samuel L. Jackson comedic moments outside of Tarantino movies.
Storytelling doesn't occur in a traditional, origin tale structure, but kinda starts in the middle of things, and as the plot proceeds the past emerges. I really appreciated this element.
There's a number of elements that prevents me from listing this as one of the nest MCU movies.
Somehow the action scenes just didn't feel entertaining, or at least mot always. If you set aside all those nostalgic elements, and all the connections, it really doesn't feel too exciting. Somehow that "woah" factor that Iron Man or the Avengers films had is missing. I think this is partly due to the way the character was portrayed by the filmmakers, I frankly feel she lacked that positive spark that many other female heroines have. Despite the fact that Captain Marvel was somewhat supposed to be THE incarnation of female strenght, in the end she kinda seems what commonly is defined as a Mary Sue. We have no explanation whatsoever as of how her superpowers work and exactly what can she do. I guess comic readers already knew them, but me, a simple cinephile, don't have the slightest idea of what are her powers even after seeing the film (shoot beams, fly and superstrenght?).
A few words about the after-credits scenes: the first one has the sole purpose of further anticipating the next avengers movie, without really providing anything new and unexpected (though the crowd seemed to think otherwise, claps started after it), and the second one has just a comical value.