An average film overshadowed by the star's political agenda

Rating: 5/10 (9 March 2019)

I saw this on it's opening movie last night. I tried my hardest to ignore all of the behind-the-scenes ideology and just enjoy the movie in it's own right.
Unfortunately, I simply could not do this. The film was incredibly slow with lengthy exposition scenes and flashbacks used to create the origin story, and the buddy cop style movie that filled the rest of the time was fine, but lacked when compared to the 80's and 90's movies like Lethal Weapon, Point Break etc.
Stan Lee's cameo was good, but raises a lot of questions (so Stan Lee plays Stan Lee in a world of characters that Stan Lee created..?).
Samuel L Jackson was okay, but no better than in his other recent films, such as The Hitman's Bodyguard (a NetFlix movie). But Brie Larson could have been replaced by a cardboard cut-out and nobody would have been able to tell the difference. The most enjoyable character for me was the cat. And when a cat is the star of the movie, that isn't a good sign!
The icing on the cake that made me groan were the pro-feminist messages scattered throughout the movie, such as No Doubt's 'Just A Girl' playing over the final battle, and many of the male characters being portrayed as misogynists (one character referencing the plane's 'cockpit', for example). It was moments like these that bought Larson's political agenda crashing back into the picture and made me cringe. I honestly feel that if Marvel had chosen another actress (or at least told Larson to hold back on her controversial statements regarding men prior to the film's release) that people would have been a lot more willing to overlook these scenes.
All in all, this turned out to be an average film overshadowed by the star's political agenda. It is worth a watch - just to plug the gap between Infinity War and Endgame - but do not expect the next Thor: Ragnarok or Spider-man: Homecoming.