Captain MehVel

Rating: 7/10 (11 March 2019)

Well here we are! First MCU Movie of the year including one of the most powerful heroes in comics Captain Marvel! She will be playing a huge part in the new Avengers Endgame movie due later in May this year. But does it hold up and is the hype worth it surrounding this movie? Meh. At least that was my thinking after the film.
Captain Marvel played by Brie Larson brings a new type of hero into the MCU universe. As we get a backstory of Carol Danvers/ Veers exploring how they came to be who they are. The setting takes place party in space and partly on earth around 1995-1996. The movie does a great but minimal job at expanding the 90's setting with music, memorabilia, clothing and such. It mainly the story that sort of falls flat.
Brie Larson does a good job but I felt her wit and character brought a good amount to the role even though I felt her acting felt somewhat dry and uninspired. In short the movie reviles around finding out how Captain Marvel came to be from her fighting alongside the Kree to take out a species called the Skrull. Now if you have watched any other MCU movie mainly Guardians, you'll know the twist right away revolving around the Kree's.
In terms of other actors Samuel L Jackson does a great job as Fury and of course the "cat" steal the show. I won't spoil too much but the humor as per every MCU movie is on point and well done.
Visually the movie looks fantastic as per every MCU movie but the story and development really just feel out place it just doesn't seem to come together cohesively, and this was a movie I wanted to love and walk out being floored and wanting to see again. Sadly I just felt the movie falls short in terms of story and character development. It just feels like a regular movie and nothing really differentiating it, in an honest word it feels forgettable.
While i implore everyone to definitely check it out, and for sure the Marvel crowd will be sticking around for any hints and clues towards Endgame coming out, the movie after it was done didn't really hold my mind to thinking further on it. It didn't make me want to talk a lot about it with friends or family the movie just felt shallow with a nice a coat of paint to mask the drab by the numbers plot.
In all was not bad just a big meh, but here is hoping the next route for our Hero will be epic and see some great villains in it as well.