Half of a Superhero movie - The dangers of a Pre-Sequel

Rating: 4/10 (8 March 2019)

I wrote my general thoughts on the movie like this;
Captain Marvel was pretty unsatisfying. Overall;
++Visuals are good
+ Minerva is waifu bait
+ Goose the Cat is kind of cool
~ All of the combat is flashy but increasingly meaningless

Plot armor is pretty painfully obvious

-- Movie lacks Carol's personal motivation, romance, struggle or convictions
-- While I understood the movie after one viewing, it had a confusing story structure at the start
-- It goes out of its way to revise the Avenger Initiative without really earning it
-- All the villains are actually blisteringly incompetent to make the protagonists look good
--- The plot twists don't make sense given the setup
--- They gender bend the real Mar-Vell which I actually didn't see coming
--- Brie lacks the gravitas or seriousness to pull off the superhero shtick.