Cringe worthy, at best.

Rating: 2/10 (18 June 2019)

For full disclosure, after seeing commentary from Brie Larson, I was very tempted to agree with her that neither she nor her movie required me spending a penny in support. After thinking about it for a while, however, I've watched and enjoyed the movies of people with whom I've disagreed on many issues. So, I decided to give it a look. Lastly, I'm not a comic geek, but I have to say that I've enjoyed many of the superhero movies in spirit of simple entertainment. I enjoyed them a good deal: the characters, the special effects, the moral plots... all of it, good fun.
I was cringing the whole time I watched this one. Here is what is supposed to be an eminently capable young woman (Fighter pilot) who unlike most people who have both good and bad experiences of other people, seems to only focus on running into the most morally retarded and misogynistic men on this or any other planet. Instead of rising above, she remains an emotionless automaton, with no real character development.
The two subplots I can see, the idea that people who don't look like "us" are just being vilified because they don't look like us... by an advanced galactic civilization of multiple species no less, was improbable but not too overblown. The only other subplot was exactly what I feared it would be, a repetitive, ham-handed, misandry with all the subtlety and nuance of explosives in your underwear.
It left me feeling what the the movie just isn't worthwhile. An extra three stars for the cat before it turned into a monster. Minus one star for making a character like Nick Fury a comic relief to advance the subplot. Minus another star for making me feel like I should take the time to write a review on a movie because it was mostly annoying.
Lastly, I'm not buying the seven stars either, unless it's a flood of votes from a demographic that thinks this kind of movie is stupid, just to support a specific having nothing to do with moviemaking.