Where's Captain Marvel? We got Captain Bland instead!

Rating: 5/10 (9 March 2019)

Captain Marvel should have been better than this. It was a huge letdown for me and might be the weakest MCU movie I've seen so far. Usually the main protagonist of a Marvel movie is fairly interesting and has some personality, but Captain Marvel herself is dull. It's not necessarily Brie Larson that's the problem. She's basically an unstoppable Superhero that doesn't seem to have any weaknesses. She has nothing really making her stand out from the pack other than her godlike powers. The character development with her seemed very lacking compared to what we had in previous Marvel movies, and her quips and attempts at humour fall flat most of the time. The best thing going for Captain Marvel is Nick Fury and that lead Reptilian Alien Shapeshifter guy. They have small entertaining quips and moments that work sporadically throughout the movie, and end up being more interesting and better developed than Captain Marvel herself. The rest of the cast are mostly not that interesting, and there was a specific animal that annoyed me throughout the movie. It was pretty bland.
The visual effects are not that great in this. It's weird how Marvel can be so hit and miss in the technical side of things. It felt fake CGI-y and more like a video game in places. There seems to be something off with the editing and how it's shot too. I wasn't a fan of how many goddamn flashbacks this movie threw right in front of our faces and kept hammering the obvious clues non-stop right in our faces. The music seemed pretty standard for a Marvel movie, but in certain scenes they would use weird choices of music for action sequences. I was like "Really? That song?" and it just didn't fit in. Why were there so many goddamn
random '90s references everywhere too? The whole thing just felt really sloppy, like a small time director's first time at directing a huge Blockbuster movie or something. I hope Avengers Endgame is far better than this, because Captain Marvel is going to be a large part of it, and maybe her first outing was just a shaky execution. I can only hope and pray she is better than this in the future.
5/10