A few steps short of Captain Marvelous

Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2020)

SYNOPSIS:
Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) is sent on a mission to retrieve a fellow soldier from the Skrulls. During the fight to get him back, Marvel finds herself on earth where she's learning that she might have been living a lie the last 6 years.
REVIEW:
I want to give the filmmakers the benefit of the doubt and say that this film turned out the way it did possibly due to having to be rushed out. It wasn't terrible, but I felt I didn't really learn much about Captain Marvel at all. They might've not given her much backstory due to the formula of origin stories being quite repetitive, but I, myself, would've appreciated one since I don't know much about her at all. Having that information really helps myself build a connection, but after watching this I just felt like she's an overpowered superhero. That's where I feel hero's such as Hawkeye and Black Widow are so important. Although neither has had a film yet, overtime they've had their personal stories build which allows me to see them as more relative hero's and I can connect even more with them not being super. I like Brie Larson a lot as an actress and I don't mind her as Captain Marvel, however, I still don't feel like Larson IS Marvel how I feel Evans IS Cap or how Downey IS Tony Stark/Iron Man. Jude Law was good, but had almost a reverse arc where he goes from a seemingly not so powerful character to a "oh he really isn't powerful at all" character. I don't even think that has anything to do being side-by-side with Marvel. The highlights of this film for me was Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn as Talos. They both had a few of the funniest moments of the film and Talos's story was the most interesting to me even over Marvel/Carol Danvers story. Ultimately, I thought the film had potential and maybe if we were introduced to her a bit earlier that it would've had more of an impact on me and we could've learned more as time went on. A couple nice moments between Danvers and Maria (Lashana Lynch), a couple funny moments and the directing being well done saved this film from totally crashing and burning for me. 6.1/10.