Half-cooked MCU entry

Rating: 5/10 (11 March 2019)

For a MCU movie on which many people were placing such high hopes on, I cannot help but to be disappointed. It comes out, in my opinion, as half-cooked, as though the movie wasn't given enough time on the developing table to be fully realized. It's got some nice ideas floating around and the participation of a de-aged Samuel L. Jackson as a young Nick Fury, is always a joy to watch. The same cannot be said about a waxy-faced looking Clark Gregg as rookie Agent Caulson. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
The film seems to exist merely as an excuse to be a two-hour Easter egg of all past and upcoming MCU movies and although the movie, as all MCU movies, is mostly very competent on a technical level, it lacks pace, takes a long time to get going and only really starts to pick up on the last 15 min o so.
But, above all, my real gripe with the movie is the performance of Brie Larson as the main character, in one of the most uninspired performances of an actress in the MCU; made all the more disappointing as this being the first female-driven movie of the franchise, the whole thing was relying heavily on a good performance and coming from such a well regarded actress, it's very disappointing. All in all, an unsatisfaying movie that seems to have been made to justify Avengers :Infinity War's last post-credit sequence and a made-for-fans trip down memory lane.