A few excellent moments stand out, but the film is largely mediocre, and sometimes passionless.

Rating: 5/10 (7 April 2019)

The brilliance of this film is charged into maybe fifteen minutes of beautifully-shot, well-acted, and thematically soulful moments: the strangely hypnotic, and visually pleasing slow-motion explosion which starts the film off (and shows its importance again later); the now famous montage of Danvers standing up repeatedly after being knocked down; and Talos being reunited with his family in a rare example of a heartwarming rather than upsetting twist. These beautifully assembled moments stand shoulder to shoulder with some of the more touching and memorable moments the MCU has to offer as a whole. However, the film overall does little else to distinguish itself. Largely, it's a passable/entertaining addition to the MCU library, but there are moments of severe dissonance as well: "You don't know who I am; I don't even know who I am!" stands out as an especially badly written, badly acted, and badly directed moment, that runs the risk of derailing the meager momentum the film has accumulated by that point.