Captain Marvel....oh boy...

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 2019)

So I saw the movie. Let's cut through the chase. It's flat, boring and really, really underwhelming. Basically a typical superhero movie. It's only advantage is that it's not too long.
Brie Larson is soo unremarkable and boring she literally puts you to sleep with one look, which I guess is a superpower. Wrong choice as a lead. I think Katee Sackhoff would have been a way better choice.
Not that the rest of the cast is anything to write home about. Sam Jackson aka "They Only Call Me Fury" ...is basically reduced to a bumbling buffoon sidekick and bad comic relief. It was good to see Phil Coulson with hair...
The 90's nostalgia was one long vintage product ad. I actually lived throughout that entire decade and it had its share of good as well as bad things. The nostalgia in this movie is understandably presented lovingly through rose coloured lenses...the reality
was far from that. Not that I necessarily expected that from the movie. But it is pretty annoying when it is played soo obviously to score points with the audience.
Oh and the humour throughout is cringeworthy, badly timed and feels like a lowbrow class of improv comedy.
All the controversy about this movie having this message or that message or about what Brie Larson said or didn't say. No worries. It's all being blown out of proportion. The movie has no message, NONE. Except the usual tired drivel you get in this genre. The
only virtue this movie espoused is the dollars Disney is banking through Marvel.
The whole movie feels like an extended TV episode and sadly a wasted opportunity to do something way better than this. The direction looks like amateur hour in terms of the skills of its two, read TWO, directors.
Oh...and I am not a fan of the cat...especially since it is the reason Nick Fury loses his eye, which is itself pretty ridiculous...
The end credit scenes are worthless and mean nothing to me as I've pretty much given up on superhero movies and haven't followed the MCU for about two years...so I got no skin in the game so to speak.
What I can't decide is at this time, is whether this is better or worse than "Wonder Woman" ...
4 out of 10