Cool visuals boring story

Rating: 6/10 (10 August 2019)

This review contains spoilers.
'Captain Marvel is a superhero action movie that features the Marvel comics character Carol Davners. The movie is directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. The movie stars Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie takes place in 1995 as Carol Danvers becomes involved in an intergalactic conflict.
Captain Marvel is a pretty movie. The visual in this movie are incredibly well done. The stunts and action are also well choreographed and impressive. The side characters are all acted well and contribute meaningfully to the overall plot. The movie became an adequate movie if the audience wants to view it as a summer action movie.
Any audience expecting the movie to veer outside of the Marvel movie formula will be disappointed. This movie plays it safe. Outside of making the main character played by Brie Larson, this movie does nothing unique. The movie is a prequel to much of the Marvel cinematic universe and many things introduced in this movie are not hinted at in the earlier released movies. This movie absolutely suffers from lack of connection to the overall Marvel cinematic universe outside of a connection to Nick Fury. I am expecting that the movie will have elements followed up on by its sequel.
Captain Marvel is a bland character. Brie Larson did the best job that she could have in this movie. Brie Larson is not a bad actress. Her previous movies showed she has acting range and emotions to be put on the screen. In this movie, the writing makes her out to be a robot and it is hard to tell when they are being intentional about this plot point. The beginning of the movie has Captain Marvel or Carol Danvers arrive on Earth and begin understanding humans. Even towards the end, Carol Danvers still appeared robotic. The other flaw seems like Carol is too invincible. She does not appear to have any flaws and the movie plays this up.
Some of the writing seems strange. Carol Danvers got her superpowers in an accident that also gave her amnesia. The amnesia explanation by the other members of the Kree force do not make sense. It seems like the better explanation would have been to lie to Carol Danvers and say she was undercover in Earth then an accident happened. This would have explained the visions she has of the crash. It would have also explained the connection she had to Earth. This entire explanation did not make sense as it stood in the movie.
Even with the flaws in the writing, I would still recommend 'Captain Marvel.' This is a solid superhero action movie.
Grade: C