Underwhelming, even in it's supposed female empowerment.

Rating: 3/10 (10 March 2019)

Big Marvel movie fan here and this is easily the worst Marvel movie I've seen. Not only that but the retconning of other story lines, like Fury's eye, is so disappointing it hurts the rest of the MCU. This is a sloppily written origin story to shoehorn in a new character that is sure to ruin Endgame which I was really looking forward to seeing. Now I'm on the fence if I even want to see Endgame at all. Based on this movie, Captain Marvel is just going to come in, hunt Thanos down, knock him around a bit before taking the infinity stones and saving the day in 30min tops. Add in 90min of snide remarks from Stark, some retorting drivel from Danvers and that'll be $20 a ticket please. I think I'll pass Disney, you're not fooling me again like you did here and with Jedi.
I despise Brie Larson's politics but went in with an open mind because I'd only seen her in Kong Skull Island in which she was dull but that role was written for her breasts more than anything else. Here, there were glimmers of light that tried to shine through but were overshadowed by scenes that I can only guess were meant to be powerful but came off so forced they were cringeworthy. BTW those forced, cringeworthy scenes include the female empowerment scenes. I can blame the writing here too, and it takes it's share of the blame, but once again I find Brie dull.
Full disclosure I'm a man. I thoroughly enjoyed Wonder Woman, Hunger Games and other strong female lead movies and I don't agree with the actresses politics either. I also didn't pay to see this and after Brie's comments, the feminist marketing and the review controversies/coverups, etc. I was going to skip it but since it was free I saw it.