Awful entry into the overly-crowded MCU

Rating: 4/10 (22 September 2019)

Kree (not Cree) StarForce member Vers (Brie Larson) ends up on Earth only to discover who she really is and what is really happening in the war against the Skrulls, a race of pointy-eared, green, shape-shifters. Surprise: nothing is what it seems. This film has everything I dislike in a comic-book adaptation. The script is nothing but a series of quips strung together with the occasional maudlin attempt at character development, the acting is as 2D as the original magazine pages, the plot muddled and contrived, the direction simple and predictable, and the special effects are uninspired and unoriginal (with the exception of de-aging Samuel L. Jackson, which was impressive). As a super-hero, Captain Marvel's abilities seem to be whatever the plot (such as it is) calls for and, while fans can try to justify the film's ridiculous illogic (like where her costume goes when in she's in 'civvies'), the whole character didn't make much sense. While the film was full of silly images, the absolute worst was in the climactic battle, when her newly colourised costume sprouts some kind of space helmet with a slot allowing her hair to stick out like a blond Roman helmet crest. I'm generally easy to please, I like movies with cats , and my expectations for comic-book adaptations are pretty low, but this movie is about as stupid as they come.