It's alright...

Rating: 6/10 (17 April 2019)

We went to see this at the quirky Neuadd Dwyfor in Pwhelli, North Wales, supporting our local independent theatre.
Immediately I was impressed by the visuals, the Scroll's looked decent and the attack team lead by Jude Law (who I knew immediately would be the bad guy - WBM) looked and sounded good. Their story was of interest to me including a badd-ass {sic} Brie Larson bringing scoundrels to justice. But then she crash landed on an Earth, in the 1995 and lost all her verve immediately.
The storyline is INCREDIBLY mundane, utterly prosaic, to the point of being boring. It is only the humour and charisma of Sam Jackson that make it bearable at all. I'm not sure if Brie Larson is a terrible actor or it is the way she is directed but her performance was bland, featureless, no arc, no jeopardy, just asinine. Granted, if she is motivating young girls to repeal the shackles of their patriarchal tormentors then all power to them. I just wish story-writers would consider those of us who need multiple layers of interest and compelling narrative.
During the tedious final battle as Captain Mar-Vel let the daughter choose the colours of her uniform (aside from wondering how the hell she (the daughter) knew how to select patterns and colours from the device anyway) I began to consider the propogandic power of superhero movies in upkeeping the false altruism of American global power. It also made me ponder the unquestioned place of ultra-violence in childrens films - obviously the film had lost me when you're thinking these thoughts during the film.
Anyway, enough of that. Captain Marvel is a brainless, shallow attmept of shoehorning in positive endorsements of characters reduced to nothing but their gender, or the colour of their skin. Like Rey from the new Star Wars films, if these half-baked leading characters positively empower the disempowered then great but just imagine what genuine, fleshed out strong female leads will do to those same people. Like most blokes I really want strong females in leading roles too!