Non political review. It was meh

Rating: 4/10 (11 March 2019)

After seeing the trailer, I didn't jump into the whole controversy around this film. The trailer just looked dull. Every actor seemed off. Even Samuel Jackson. So I thought to myself, it had to be the director. I mean I've liked Brie Larson in her other works.
I wasn't going to go see it, but hey, I'm one to give things a chance. And I didn't regret watching it. It was watchable but... Captain Marvel is an incredibly unlikable character that seems like something an insecure teenage girl wrote.
She has no weaknesses, she's constantly sarcastic and condescending to everyone, and is completely overpowered. No humility whatsoever. But you say to yourself "hey but tony is really arrogant and egotistical" you're right and he often pays for that arrogance. It comes back to bite him all the time. But there's no consequences to captain marvel's arrogance and general egotistical behavior.
How did they thing that making a character constantly belittle everyone without adding constructive insight on anything, make her likeable??
The scene where she makes Fury reveal something personal and weird to prove isn't a skrull was nice. But then instead of having her reveal something relatable and personal about herself in return to prove herself. She just fires her photo beam destroying property in the bar she use to love being in and smugly replies "that was a photon blast. Skrull can't do that." Are you kidding me? He just has to take her word for it? He doesn't know what skrull can or can't do!
They seemed to be afraid to give her character any depth. Even when she's falling and closes her eyes, building up to her being able to fly. You think "hmm maybe she's gonna have some kind of flashback from Dr Mar Vel, giving her words of strength and that's when she clicks in her full potential?" Nope just glowie eyes and her going WEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Here's what I have to say about her abilities. Her photon blast.... boring! They seem to be magic that does whatever she needs them to do. Needs to power a broken engine? Zap! Engine starts up, ship takes off.
So overall I enjoyed every other character movie except captain marvel. The skrull character ended up being extremely likeable. I would watch a movie about him. The cat was great. I'm dreading to see captain marvel in endgame.