Brie takes the center stage

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2019)

I went to see the movie with very mixed feelings. MCU has produced some excellent movies and a bunch that come from the other end of the scale. After seeing the trailers I was most afraid that Captain Marvel would fall into the latter category. Thankfully I was wrong.
To me the movie and especially Brie Larson were able to produce a coherent and a very understatedly funny coming of age -story. Sometimes it felt that the screen writer came from a British school of comedy writers with the subtle and very quick jokes that had considerably more depth than met the eye. Naturally, the movie could have gone deeper to the motivational aspects of the main characters, especially Nick Fury whose backstory this was as strongly as Captain Marvel's. Still, for me the psychological aspects of change were handled much more convincingly than in most MCU stories.
The action did not take the center stage which, for me, is also positive. The fight scenes were choreographed quite messily and I still cannot understand, why the ultimately strong character has to take few hits even after it has been proved that she is in different scale with the competitors.
The best part, IMO, was the end of the last fight between Captain Marvel and Yon-Rogg. I think that every other major player in the MCU would have needed to prove herself as ordered. It would have been interesting to have Carol Dancers discussing emancipation with Darlene Sweet from the Bad Times at El Royale.