Unbiased review - Unrealised potential.

Rating: 3/10 (9 March 2019)

I personally like to think I tuned out the politics around the movie and I personally didn't know of Brie Larsen so I went into the movie with a fresh perspective. This movie didn't have a good structure, in my opinion it started quite well but as the movie went on it was quite a drag. Very little was done to develop the movie, for example, the war between the Kree and the Skrull, I was very disappointed with how this wasn't explored and virtually no reasons were given as to the basis for the war, the motivations of the Kree to rid the skrulls or what the skrulls may have done to piss off the Kree. I kid you not, it only takes 2 minutes to explain this, considering the plot twist later on in the movie with the Skrulls, the ideal opportunity to explain the context behind the war was at the beginning of the movie with the Kree, their motivations could have been explained further as to what the Skrulls May have done to them. They could have done this and it would not haven taken away from the plot twist.
Then there was Brie Larsen, I personally felt her character wasn't written well and this role was in my opinion, beneath her in all honesty. She wasn't given much to work with, I felt that she also didn't see the potential in Captain Marvel as there were scenes in the movie where she could performed better. Take for example the lunchbox scene which was presumed by Gron Rog (sorry if I spelt that wrong) to have contained the Tessaract, when it was revealed that there is no Tessaract, I personally thought this was a real comedic moment where she could have eased up her posture and pretended to be surprised by saying "what, But what, I could have sworn that damn Skrull put it in there" it was very underwhelming for me. But I must stress, this was not Brie's undoing, I would be unmotivated too if I read a script where I get powers and there is no explanation as to why I got them. Okay she was blasted with the core energy and she absorbed it but why was she able to and not others, what separated her from everyone else. I rather watch Plank from Ed Edd and Eddy, now that was a well developed character. This poor character development really hindered Brie Larsen's ability to actually act and infuse a personality to the character. I personally saw her potential with the emotion she showed when she was united with Maria, she done really well portraying her sadness and really sent the message of, I'm sad because I can't remember, this was the only potential to give the character a bit of range and she done well, but she isn't super actor - the saviour of all characters, there is so much she could do. I would love to nitpick other scenes but it wasn't entirely Brie's fault.
Overall, the movie really thanked, I am not even gonna get into the Tessaract questions and how Marvell came into possession of it (this too was unexplored) as we know Howard Stark was in possession of it and this was why it sucked because they didn't spend time to develop it. If I was to compare this to the first Thor movie which in my opinion sucked, but it only sucked for me because there was not enough action but every character had range and there was a great piece of story telling behind it. This is nothing like the first Thor movie, in fact I felt like I committed a crime to even compare the two. 3/10 for me so I wouldn't recommend anyone to go see it.