The first real stain in the entirety of the MCU

Rating: 2/10 (11 April 2020)

Look, it's not like the MCU hasn't had a few poor movies before Captain Marvel. We had pretty messy movies like Iron Man 3, The Incredible Hulk, and Thor: The Dark World. However, all of those film's can later be looked back on as stepping stones to further progress the story and characters so that actions the characters make in later films make sense.
But this movie was just...bad. This was not a good movie in terms of continuation in the MCU and just not good in general. Carol Danvers is by far the worst character in this universe. She's too cocky, narcissistic and downright too overpowered, with her only in movie flaw is that she has no flaws.
There's my problem right there. You see, having a naturally cocky ego being a part of your personality isn't too much of a problem as long as you start to develop into something more than a jerk. As seen with Tony Stark in Iron Man 1 and Dr. Steven Strange in Doctor Strange. Both start off as arrogant, narccistic d- bags at the start but throughout their films they learn humility and begin to become more humble after experiencing eye opening experiences.
Carol Danvers does NONE of that. She never develops. Her nonexistant arc fall flat no matter what. Everything she says sounds extremely condensending, she has to undermine the integrity of other characters, and she doesn't work at all for her powers. It's just given to her. Nothing else. Just boom. Mind Captain Marvel, everyone else in this universe actually worked for their position. Thor was a god that had his powers stripped from him entirely in his first movie. Had to regain his title as being worthy and struggled with that throughout his films. Tony Stark was selfish and self-centered until he was kidnapped and saw the liability of his actions when Yinsin died protecting him. He sought after trying to prevent innocence casualties and any harm coming to those he loved by struggling to make functional suits to protect people. And you got that over the course of 3 solo films and an additional dozen crossovers. Carol just has it because she has it. Thats it.
Her snark is very demeaning, and that lies on Brie Larson's poor portrayal. She doesn't have the charisma to pull it off. In fact, her portaryal is dull. There's no spark to it. And it's making me quetion Larson's acting skills. Which is genuinely a shame because I saw her in Room and she was phenomenal in it. So good that she even got an Oscar for it. So what happened here? She just couldn't carry this movie. Which is such a shame.
Now, for Nick Fury. This one hurts me the most. I'm all for some 90's nostalgia and I love me some Samuel L Jackson, because who doesn't? His portrayal in the MCU as Nick Fury has always been great. But, this 90's Nick Fury doesn't coencede with the Fury we've seen in the original timeline. How is he this jolly and open when in movies like Iron Man 2 or The Avengers he's such a rogue in the shadows? It just doesn't line up. People can change, but you're telling me HE LOST HIS EYE TO A CAT?!?!?! WTF? Are you kidding me? I just.......,WHAT?!?! I watched The Winter Soldier randomly on a whim before watching this and there was a scene where Fury is talking to Cap about his eye. He specifically said, "I lost my eye because I trusted someone." So what the hell? Does that mean he was lying? Was he ashamed? Because this movie makes it to be that a cat scratch made him lose his eye. This movie destroyed the lore over Fury's past. So now it's hard to enjoy Fury's scenes in the previous films.
The only good things about this movie were the Stan Lee tribute in the title sequence at the start, The de-again effect on Sam Jackson and the Shield agents, the cat (despite the Cat ruining Nick Fury's character), Mandelson and Jackson's acting, and the Cree aliens.
This character being in Endgame didnt make a damn difference. She could've been left out and it wouldn't be different. Captain Marvel was introduced too late and poorly. If this character is gonna stay in the MCU and Brie Larson is gonna stay playing her, they better change her act and Larson better up the acting game, otherwise her character will ruin phase 4 a lot.
Such a shame.
Rating- 2/10