Awesome superhero film

Rating: 9/10 (24 May 2020)

I basically never bother reviewing stuff on here because I'm lazy and not mad into films, but I'm damned if I know what film half these other people watched. My suspicion is that if you obsessively ate up every Marvel film as they came out maybe they all just get samey?
That'd explain why everyone here seems to think "superhero who flies through space and smashes up aliens and saves people" apparently = "Captain Meh".
I *didn't* obsessively eat up Marvel films. I saw Iron Man when it came out, and Hulk, and then my wife and I had kids and I have had 0 time to go to cinemas until I've been in coronavirus lockdown for two months, so I'm coming to this fresh.
I'm using the Tech Radar Chronological Order so (ignoring the ones I saw 12 years ago), I've only seen Captain America First Avenger so far, and then Captain Marvel - it's definitely better than Captain America, if only because there way better character development, not just from Captain Marvel who finds herself and her friends but also from a bunch of minor characters:
Samuel L Jackson starts out as comic relief but becomes a really awesome sidekick in his own right, and Ben Mendelsohn gives a brilliant turn as the exact kind of obsequious patronising asshole of a commanding officer that anyone can recognise from their own "Worst Boss I Ever Had" list (and, brilliantly, gets exactly the kind of "screw you, you go tell senior management just what I think of them" battering that I bet any office drone has fantasies about in long sales meetings!)
There's definitely a core similarity to Iron Man with the whole "Stark Industries are the bad guys" realisation that Tony has, and that Vers has both at the same pivot point of the film, so that wasn't a very shocking twist, but even so this is a really good film!
Action sequences are done really well without being overblown CGI-fests, and although they're fun and plentiful, they're not allowed to drag the plot back or hamper the slowly-revealed mystery of where Vers comes from and what she needs to do.
If the rest of the series holds up as well as this, quarantine could almost keep going another few weeks. (Although I hope it doesn't, there's a whole actual world outside I'd quite like to go back to, sometime and my kids are going stir crazy and keep fighting over the Switch).