A disappointing and late entry for a Hero who's supposed to save it all.

Rating: 4/10 (7 March 2019)

I went to see the movie in Premier in France with no expectations at all. I don't like hyping myself up because every time I do, I feel disappointed.
Since the first trailer, I wasn't really excited for this movie, especially when I saw the casting. Brie Larson is great, she played some pretty solid roles in other movies, but I couldn't help but feeling like she wasn't going to be a good super hero. Same thing for Jude Law. I like him a lot, but the type of movies like Holmes suits him best.
This review has nothing to do with the Social Media "war" and all the comments made about gender, race, etc. I don't care about these. Movies are meant to be entertaining, not be about politics.
I'm going to start by stating the positive points. Which is only one thing actually. It's the introduction to the was between Skrulls and Krees. It shows some promising aspects to what could happen to the MCU after Endgame.
However, this introduction was so superficial. They didn't scratch the surface to go deeper into the problems surrounding these "Alien" civilizations.
Now to the negative points, which is basically everything else.
Starting with Captain Marvel herself. She's shallow, she felt robotic, she's so overpowered: emotionally and ability-wise.. This is the first time I felt DC did something better than MCU: Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman isn't maybe as strong as Captain Marvel, but she's pretty tough. During her movie I felt vulnerability and self-doubt and a lot of emotions from the character. And that's the opposite of what Captain Marvel was. She wasn't excited about anything.She was impersonated to be so powerful, and that's it. As a war machine created to one purpose and nothing else. There is no sense of any danger of losing. And that's a huge problem.
I was excited about the Amnesia part. Starting a movie with this kind of condition puts the spectator in the shoes of the main character, because as us, they don't know what's happening to them, or what has happened. But, that wasn't the case. Unlike Jason Bourne, she just had flashbacks and BAM, it all came back to her. I was so frustrated with that. It felt as if they don't care about the suspense in this movie. Again, shallow and superficial.
The cat is cute and all, but I believe I can get hundreds of free hours of cute cats on Youtube. Don't get me wrong, it's part of of MCU's charm, but they went a bit too far with it for my taste.
The same thing for the jokes: some were good, and others were cringey.
I found the chemistry between Fury and Marvel was really cool. But I found it unrealistic too. They should've given Fury more "choc" behavior to seeing Aliens for the first time.
I understand the "woman power" message they're trying to give. But even for men who have nothing to lose kind of writing, they've emotions and are vulnerable.
Finally, I don't see any connection in this to Endgame... Other than the post credits scene.
So yeah... I think her introduction came too late, and it ended up being really rushed. The writing was bad, and it made her seem so emotionless.
They tried to introduce a new super hero, talk about her background, talk about her present, and introduce the future of a potential MCU franchise. That's a lot for one movie.
This movie was like 2 hours of Ex-Machina
I just really hope she won't come in Endgame and act the same way and become somehow their leader and defeat Thanos like it was nothing. That would ruin 10 years of work and lore establishing.