Carol Danvers is a completely uninteresting, uncompelling, emotionless brick

Rating: 2/10 (9 March 2019)

Sigh...Where to begin. I really held out hope for this movie going into it, despite all the political nonsense that's been surrounding it for the last couple weeks now. I've enjoyed most of the previous MCU movies and especially enjoyed infinity war, and with hopes of hints at what's to come next, I wen't to see Captain Marvel and was completely disappointed.
First off, let me address the elephant in the room, the fact that this is a self proclaimed "feminism" movie. I wen't into the movie well aware of this, and really tried to ignore it and focus on enjoying the movie itself, but it winds up being at the core of many of the movies issues.
Carol Danvers is a completely uninteresting, uncompelling, inhuman (emotionally and somewhat literally) brick of a character and it seems clear this is from the directors attempt to focus on making her a strong, independent woman. It's as if they thought the only way to make an empowering female role model of a character was to make her emotionless, indestructible, without flaw, and obscenely powerful. Oh, and make sure to only explain her character through the hateful men in her life.
Yes that's right, I'm not exaggerating that last bit at all. Despite this supposedly being an origin story, it doesn't feel like that at all. Carol's entire backstory is explained exclusively through flashbacks, nearly ALL of which are focused around how stereotypical, misogynistic men treat her like garbage and tell her she's worthless and incapable of doing anything. As absurd as it all is, it doesn't even feel like a backstory in the first place. She starts the movie already indestructible and incredibly more powerful than anyone else, and then at some point towards the end of the movie, if you're still paying attention to the ridiculous flashbacks, one of the flashbacks switches from their standard hateful men moments and actually tells us something useful, that being how she got her powers. Then somehow the overpowered unstoppable force figures out how to become even more obscenely powerful?
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The CGI fight scenes which are visually stunning are made far less interesting knowing that literally nothing bad can happen to Carol. At one point she flies head on into a barrage of massive incoming missiles meant to destroy planets, blows them up in a second, then proceeds to fly through an armada of attacking space ships, blowing them up just by crashing through them and coming out the other end completely unfazed.
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TL;DR
Ultimately, the whole thing is just an overly drawn out bore. The main character is an emotionless brick. She's so unreasonably powerful that at no point do you feel concerned for her or interested in her cause (which never really becomes clear?). Despite having 2 hours to do something, the whole story just feels forced and leaves the audience scratching there heads trying to make sense of who Captain Marvel actually is. Oh, and apparently the only way to be a powerful woman is to have a bunch of hateful men in your life? This about sums up the entire movie.