Oh Captain my Captain

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2019)

The film starts by showing a war is raging between the warrior-hero Krees and the shapeshifting Skrulls. The Skrulls seem to be invading as many worlds as possible with the Krees attempting to keep the peace and stop them by any means necessary.
After a rescue mission goes wrong, Kree soldier, Ver (Brie Larson), finds herself on Earth desperately seeking a company called Pegasus and one of their doctors, Wendy Lawson (Annette Bening). Lawson has developed Light-Speed technology which the Skrulls will do anything to get their hands on it which would result in them being able to rule. Ver sets out to find it first.
Set primarily in 1995, but utilising flashbacks to fill us in on Ver's history, rhis is a very good pre-Avengers set film, it does however try a little too hard to make it a funny film with some of the one lines falling a bit flat and delivered a bit too cocky. The script is very good on the whole and while not the best Marvel film it still delivers a very enjoyable watch.
Brie Larson does an excellent job as the Captain looking assured in the fights but she does come across as annoying and cocky at times. Her emotions and expressions regularly go from confusion to realisation to acceptance in the blink of an eye and this is repeated several times over as she comes to terms with finding out who she really is.
Jude is wasted to an extent as the udual British actir playing a villian as Yon-Rogg, a seasoned Kree warrior, in a role that deserved more screen time.
A remarkably de-aged Samuel L. Jackson goes through the motions as Nick Fury, but has fun exploring the origins of his character. The rest of the supporting cast all do their jobs well enough and there's a nostalgic 1990's soundtrack including the likes of Nirvana, No Doubt and R.E.M.
The problem that's been created by this film is that they've made Captain Marvel far too powerful and she appears virtually indestructible. It's similar to the Superman problem in Justice League. Superman saves the day without the help of any of the others, subsequently making the idea of a team redundant and that's pretty much what happens here. It'll be interesting to see how directors the Russo brothers use Carol Danvers in Avengers: End Game and what her Achilles heel will be because, after the evidence of this outing, she could slap that big, bad baddy Thanos down with ease all by herself.
Captain Marvel is a solid superhero film and entertaining in places, particularly the last thirty minutes, but not up to the exceptionally high standard of the majority of MCU films. It's fun, but flawed.
As usual make sure to watch out for the mid-credits scene that you won't want to miss and there is one right at the end which isn't that special.