Captain Marvel may be the most average MCU film to date.

Rating: 5/10 (22 March 2019)

Captain Marvel had a lot of pressure to live up to considering the fact that it's an MCU film, the first movie about a female superhero since Wonder Woman, and the fact that it's the origin story of a foreshadowed character that's set to appear in Endgame. Sadly, I feel as though this is the MCU as its most underwhelming.
I don't think this film is a total atrocity like many of the other reviewers here, this isn't Fant4stic levels of terrible. Frankly, this movie has some good qualities to it. It's a well-shot, great-looking movie with lovely cinematography. Samuel L.. Jackson is entertaining as always as Nick Fury. He also befriends a cat, who manages to be unexpectedly useful, and might be my favorite aspect of this movie. I found the third act in particular to be the most exciting part of the entire film. Finally, like usual, the technical aspects of this movie were fantastic.
As for my criticisms, for starters, there is a plot twist that occurs later on into the film that could've worked out. However if the viewer has watched a previous MCU film, there is a villain that makes a return that makes the twist feel incredibly predictable. It's a twist that doesn't really do it for me, and I can't imagine it working for many other people. My biggest problem with the movie however, is probably Captain Marvel herself. She's very bland as a character overall. While I don't think her performance as a whole was bad, Brie Larson showed very little emotion while she was on-screen. She had this blank, wooden stare throughout the entire film. Finally, I found her development as a superhero to be incredibly abrupt and forced.
Captain Marvel is not a bad movie, it's just painfully average and not anywhere near the quality we would usually expect from the MCU. It's stylish and has its moments, but it overall felt lacking. Marvel Studios should've done better than this.
5/10