Decent Origin Story

Rating: 8/10 (11 April 2019)

Marvel have done a quite decent movie for Captain Marvel. The plot is generic enough. The humor is good, mostly because of Nick Fury, Goose and Skrull characters. The drama is quite good also, I can see the developing dynamic between Nick Fury and Carol Danvers, the strong bond between Maria Rambeau and Carol, and the shifting power-play interaction between Yon Rogg (team leader of Carol's Kree team) and Carol. Quite clever of Marvel for telling us how Nick Fury lost his eye (not expecting that but kinda fits). Also about who is the real villain in the movie, I know from the start of movie that some character have "not-the-good-guy" vibe. Still I kinda feel blindsided of the Skrulls who the real motive are to reunite with their estranged family (not excusing the bad things that they done and it make them look villainny at the start of the movie). But for me it's quite an achievement since the woman in this movie is not become only an object (not as male sidekick or reduced as romantic interest or as sexual object). This movie putting into perspective how woman often treated by society. And since its a heroine movie, in the end of course she saves the day. So despite some of plot holes (how the tesseract come to play) or dragging storytelling, the movie is decent enough for me.