Average Marvel Film

Rating: 5/10 (4 April 2019)

Captain Marvel isn't a bad film. While I vehemently dislike Brie Larson, her acting talent is more than serviceable for this film. My real issues with it come from the lackluster story. Spoilers ahead.
The entire beggining of the movie shows Captain Marvel (CM) as a member of the Kree starforce thinking of herself as a Kree (utterly pointless as anyone familiar with the MCU will already know she is human. She has magic powers that she is told she has been given by the Supreme Intelligence, powers which can be taken away. (this isn't true, she got her powers from an explosion. or maybe the supreme intelligence can take them away but it wasn't made very clear.
Anyway the whole story is kinda pointless, you have the Skrulls who spend the first half of the movie trying to kill Captain Marvel and to infiltrate earth. Then they pull the old "the guys you thought were bad were good" which just makes the movie more confusing. I don't know if Skrulls are meant to have already have been established as a race in the MCU before this but I can't remember them at all and spent the first half of the movie asking " who are these space goblin elf men?". There isn't really a villain in this movie, after having a villain like Thanos, you can't just use some weird man with strange eyes and expect that to be a compelling villain.
Only went to see this to prepare for endgame, wasn't disappointed as I wasn't expecting Infinity War level quality. But this movie is on the level of Thor 2 in terms of how dull it was, at least Thor 2 had a central villain.
In conclusion, it's not good, but its a long shot from the worst film I've ever seen. One of the weaker Marvel films but not every movie is created equally.