The MCU Movie We Don't Need

Rating: 3/10 (29 May 2019)

You can feel some talented people put quite a bit of effort into this movie, but you can't feel any lasting satisfaction.
This is our introduction to Captain Marvel, and we get a checklist of characteristics that feel inflated and generic. There is a story here that slowly unravels and tries to keep you guessing what the source of the movie's suspense comes from, but it delivers next to nothing about Marvel herself and why I would want to care about her.
What you do get in the end is a few hollow laughs typical of a big budget movie, some character origin stuff for Shield that doesn't give any new insight, some pretty good CGI that's a bit over the top sometimes, weak character links to other MCU movies, and Marvel herself becoming so ridiculously powerful I was rooting for the other side to take her down a notch so it could actually get interesting.
There was nothing to gain from this movie other than realizing how hard they tried to play up Marvel as this feisty rogue who should inspire you to believe in yourself. That's the problem, there's nothing to care about in Captain Marvel and this side step in the MCU added nothing but an annoying delay in the regularly scheduled destination we all really want to go to.