Great potential squandered.

Rating: 3/10 (30 March 2019)

This movie had a lot of promise, and I was very optimistic going in. It has a lot of neat ideas, but doesn't really pay them off. The biggest twists were both spoiled by the movie itself.
It could have done a neat Bourne Identity type story discovering her past, but the trailers already told us who she was, and in case you missed the trailers the movie shows us in a mind-reading flashback.
They could have done a nice twist about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, but the movie spoils that by showing us characters who were revealed as villains in Guardians of the Galaxy.
It could have done a nice 'fish out of water' story, but Brie Larson's performance is completely one-note, there is no real change in behavior between "Vers" and Carol.
And on a side note, the de-aging on Fury was good, but carrying on that technology for that much screen time makes the uncanny valley affect inevitable, and it did take me out of the story a few times. And Coulson looked downright plastic in the stairwell scene.
I really wanted to like this. But I didn't.
PS, I"m not a conspiracy theory guy but I have been trying to post this on Rotten Tomatoes for weeks, for some reason it keeps failing to post while there are hundreds of 5-star ratings from accounts that were just created this month and have only reviewed one movie...