Pointless and Unnecessary

Rating: 5/10 (13 March 2019)

It wasn't as in-your-face feminist as I expected but wasn't anywhere near as good either.
With the huge roster of superhero movies I hoped we were done with origin stories, but unfortunately Marvel has other ideas. I would have preferred to see the few minutes of story we needed to see as a B Plot in another movie, maybe Guardians 3. Let's hope the movie is necessary for future Skrull or Kree movies.
The Fury eye reveal made me roll my eyes in disappointment. The tesseract being the mcguffin made me groan. The independent women anvil was cringworthy. The plot was predictable and dull and.... Pointless. One of the first long scenes had me moving around in my seat, bored already.
In terms of action and fight sequences it's similar in scale to phase one movies but with a bigger budget for effects. 8 years ago it would have been a decent entry but here and now it's like they're treading water and wasting time while they finish Endgame.
With this, Antman and The Wasp and Black Panther in a short space of time, Marvel is no longer the studio that guarantees a good time. They may be victims of their own success; in a world where we expect bigger and better every time, they've nowhere to go but down. These smaller scale movies with no real jeopardy feel like stale cash grabs.