Plenty Of Action To Go Around

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2019)

I saw "Captain Marvel", starring Brie Larson-Kong:Skull Island, 21 Jump Street_2012; Samuel L. Jackson-Glass, Kong:Skull Island; Ben Mendelsohn-Robin Hood_2018, The Dark Knight Rises; Jude Law-Fantastic Beasts:The Crimes of Grindelwald, Spy and Annette Bening-Rules Don't Apply, Open Range.
This movie is based on the Marvel comic book character, not the original Captain Marvel that is now being published by DC comics-he goes by the name of Shazam ever since they lost the name rites to Marvel's character, but that's another story. Brie plays Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel. The movie is set in 1995 and you learn through flashbacks and memories her origin story. Samuel is Nick Fury and he-as well as another actor-is de_aged digitally so that he looks younger and he has both of his eyes. You do learn what happened that made him wear the eye patch-at least according to the MCU, aka Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it's not the same as in the original comics. Story wise, there is a big galactic war going on between two alien races called the Kree and the Skrulls. Jude is the Kree soldier that trained Brie and Ben is the leader of the Skrulls, a shape_shifting race. Annette plays the Supreme Intelligence, an A.I. that gives the Kree their marching orders. Both races are competing to find a certain item of power and it just so happens to be hidden on Earth, so there is plenty of action to go around. I remember hearing some music by No Doubt and Nirvana among some others. The opening Marvel Studios logo-the one that usually shows lots of different Marvel characters-is a little different, focusing on only one person, and it is not Captain Marvel. Stan Lee has his usual brief cameo-filmed before he died in 2018-and I've heard he will have his last one in the Avengers End Game. There are two scenes as the end credits start; one is right after the credits start, and it includes several Avengers and it is connected to the Infinity War and the other one is at the very end and it is comical, involving a character named Goose.
It's rated "PG-13" for sci fi violence & action and some mild language and has a running time of 2 hours & 4 minutes.
It was a little confusing at times, because of the flashbacks and memory scenes but it did make sense in the end.
Overall, I really enjoyed it and would buy it on Blu_Ray.