Adequate but lacking

Rating: 7/10 (9 March 2019)

As a lover of the MCU I was very excited for this movie. It has all the Marvel elements you'd expect: action, fun, dash of comedy. The way they approached the origin part of the story was good, little fresh style for telling it. What this movie absolutely didn't do:
1. Develop side characters- we spend all our time with Captain Marvel's character and everyone else is about as deep as a puddle after a long drought.
2. Sloppy plot- This movie never bothers to tell us why to care or what's at stake. You watch it because it's Marvel. And that's it.
3. Bad guys- in the muddy plot the antagonists...are shallow, confusing, one dimensional, and soooo underdeveloped it's laughable. It honestly feels like they rushed so hard to put this together the writers forgot about basic art of story-telling. The conflict just sort of is...no why...no conflicting agendas...just fight because we want to.
4. World building- the opportunity to dive into alien races just gets chucked out the window. The only thing this movie really seemed to care about is promoting girl power. Which is cool and all, but not to the neglect of you know, an actual story.