Captain Marvel Dethrones Iron Man 3 as worst MCU Movie

Rating: 1/10 (10 March 2019)

Marvel has a knack for plucking their characters out of obscurity and launching them into the limelight, as proven by the original Iron Man, Ant-Man, Captain America and some of the others who just weren't household names like some other superheroes such as Spider-Man or the Incredible Hulk. However it only worked for those characters because in their own comics they weren't completely rebooted multiple times.
While the DC cinematic universe has mostly floundered, it found success with one character--Wonder Woman. This put Marvel on its heels as they haven't had an MCU film with a female protagonist. Enter Captain Marvel. The problems with this character in the comics manifest themselves in the movie. There were several versions of Captain Marvel in the comics (some male, some female) and they all fizzled because they're not interesting characters. She is too powerful and therefore extremely boring. Not too mention Brie Larson is at best wooden, and at worst cringey in the delivery of her lines. Her on screen presence oozes of "I'm too hot to be playing in the nerd movie what's on my instagram".
Furthermore, this film disrupts a decade of development of the MCU--several plot holes abound from trying to shoehorn this unwanted character into the MCU just so they can split the final Infinity War into a second movie.
Really the only thing you'll get out of this movie is standard Marvel visuals, which are fine but not nearly enough to carry this loser character across the finish line. The supporting actors do their best, but this protagonist is just so lame.
I think Captain Marvel would have been received much more warmly into the MCU if she wasn't presented to us in a standalone feature in the 11th hour as a deus ex machina to save the world from Thanos after the Avengers and guardians of the Galaxy all failed to defeat him. We were teased for six years with Thanos before finally seeing him in the fight, but we get a character no one asked for with Captain Marvel. Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, Vision, and Black Panther were all introduced without their own movies at first and it worked.
After Infinity War was over, I heard multple people exiting the theater going "who the hell is Captain Marvel?" But in any case, this movie makes Iron Man 3 look like the crown jewel of the MCU and not the festering roadkill it once was thanks to this abomination of a movie.