Like a bowl of rice with no salt or ketchup

Rating: 4/10 (27 March 2019)

It's a bland and flavorless. A thoroughly unremarkable Marvel film with phase 1 tier action, writing, and world building, along with the usual Marvel blueprint of dramatic scene after dramatic scene punctuated with a comedic beat, (especially quips). There's not a moment of real drama in this film. Brie Larson is front and center as the charisma vacuum Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel. Larson monotones through the film like a lobotomized Keanu Reeves. All that being said, i didn't hate Captain Marvel, i just didn't care for it. The only thing i really disliked was the choice to focus on female empowerment, not inner strength, as the main theme. The main interest of the movie was political: to teach girls to be strong in the face of 'bad men' (female empowerment) not to be strong based on their character (inner strength). Its heart was not completely in the right place and that came across on-screen. Suffice to say, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, and Goose the cat stole the show.