One of Marvel's Best

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 2019)

I thoroughly enjoyed this film. At a time when Marvel's origin story films have, to me, started to feel a bit redundant, Captain Marvel was different, original, fresh. Having Samuel L. Jackson as one of the main characters was truly a delight. Brie Larson is wonderful and engaging in her performance. She's never over the top. She's grounded and real, and very relatable because of that - a character I could connect with. On top of that, the movie never hits you over the head with its mid-nineties references, but still fully brings to life that time period, and the nostalgia feels it evokes are wonderful. I found myself laughing a lot, thinking back to the decade in which I lived a number of my teenage years, with its video rental stores, pagers, and dial-up Internet.
I personally think this is one of Marvel's finer films, and certainly one of its very best origin stories.