Not the Marvel movie i was expecting...

Rating: 5/10 (11 March 2019)

Going in to see Captain Marvel, i hoped the story would be better. What i saw was not the Marvel movie i expected. The story lacked certain elements, some things in the movie needed to be explained more, like the war between the Kree and the Skrulls needed to be explored further, some of the Skrull powers were not even mentioned, they only mentioned the shape shifting and the voice mimicry part. Some parts of the movie were a little boring that i forgot what was happening or what were they trying to do. The acting was good most of the time, Samuel L. Jackson stole the show in my opinion as for Brie Larson, something was off about her acting as if she didn't understand the character. Don't get me wrong... i like Brie Larson and i think she is a good actress, but maybe that's just me. Ben Mendelsohn's performance was good too. As for the superhero moment in the movie that i was waiting for, i didn't feel it. I didn't get the chills that i usually get when watching a superhero movie whether it's a Marvel or a DC film, even the part where she fully embraced her powers and learned how to use them and she was destroying those missiles so easily, i didn't feel that this is the character that is gonna be a big part of Avengers: End Game as those scenes happened so fast you almost feel like they are unearned. The special effects in this movie were a hit and miss, certain visual effects were poorly executed specially in the third act during the part were she flew into space , although Samuel L. Jackson's De-aging visual effects were so good you won't even notice them during the movie and you tend to forget that they are being used in the first place. I'm not gonna talk about the villains of the movie because i feel that they were not the center of the story because even the Skrulls that were supposed to be the bad guys turned out to be the opposite and the plot twist that Jude Law's character turned out to be the villain was not so shocking in the end, the movie was so focused on how Carol Danvers became captain marvel that it kinda ignored those certain elements. As for the jokes, some were good and some weren't. I get that some people like the jokes in Marvel movies, but sometimes they try so hard to make jokes that makes you feel they are out of context. The Mid-Credits scene was very good as it ties directly to Avengers: End Game, and the End-Credits scene was not so important but worth watching nonetheless. Overall, the movie was okay, but it was below average compared to the other solo Marvel movies.