A missed opportunity for the Marvel Universe

Rating: 2/10 (9 March 2019)

The biggest disappointment for me was the treatment of the shape-shifting alien menace known to us True Believers as the Skrulls.
I always believed that the Skrulls were Stan Lee's nod to the Cold War era fear of invasion from within, as manifested in such great movies of the era as Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The "Red Scare" created a very real fear of subversion and attack from within and Stan Lee knew how to work it. When the Skrulls appeared in Marvel Comics, that is exactly what they were..scary because they could be anyone and you never knew if your friends or allies had been replaced.
And we get a small taste of that in this movie, but it quickly vanishes as the Skrull are reduced to "sympathetic refugees" and by the end they are all good friends, literally sitting around a table and chatting with the humans. This is a pretty big departure from the expansionist infiltrators serving a ruthless system spanning empire (representing Communism) that we see in the comics.
But I get it, it's not the first time Marvel has remade a villain to fit a movie, the Mandarin in Iron Man, Captain America's foe Baron Zemo, etc. But this one was disappointing to me personally because I really liked the Skrulls and was looking forward to seeing them in action.
As for the rest of the movie, it was honestly a little boring and predictable. The only real surprise was how the Skrulls were portrayed.
I found it humorous that Captain Marvel's mentor keeps telling her to control her emotions, which I guess she was really good at, because I definitely didn't see any from Brie Larson. Lashana Lynch and Samuel L. Jackson did a great job, and Jude Law was decent, despite the fact that his "betrayal" was telegraphed from the beginning.
Overall, if you watch it, watch it for the special effects and humorous quips from Samuel L. Jackson, and so you know who the Captain Marvel character is in the next Avengers movie. But honestly, you can probably skip it.