Overall: Low Excitement & Entertainment Quotient For A Marvel Film

Rating: 5/10 (25 March 2019)

I can't speak for the rabid Marvel comic fan and that, I believe, makes for a less subjective take which just as many movie goers have. I like most of the MCU movies or their entertainment value. MCU at its best gives us characters with lovable quirks as well as varying powers which they have to leverage: we like them, root for them, and as we get to know them love them more as cool and unique. Besides the characters things get better when the story is well timed with wicked humor and music.
Captain Marvel is weak on most of the ingredients great MCU film adaptations stand on. Brie Larson looks stubborn and cold even though her soft smile promises more. The character just doesn't endear one as such. Samuel Jackson's Fury is a bit flat perhaps because the timeline of the film calls for him to be younger and more an even more cocksure stance. Even watered down Jackson is a big plus here though because it seems the story never seems too dangerous itself. When the Cree are exposed as the enemy they're weak even with CM not yet totally powered up. The whole feels like many half-baked parts even as there's regular and plentiful action. Jude Law is the only character that really hits it square. He's cold, shrewd, calculating, and deliciously two-faced...and that's just his human-like traits.
All in all the good/bad story wasn't recycled with any panache or palatable danger. The central character wasn't quirkily endearing as should be mandated - especially as she finds her seemingly limitless powers. And a kind of political agenda seemed to hover which I won't go into. Did Goose the Flerken steal the show?