Much fanfare, little delivery

Rating: 3/10 (29 June 2019)

Hysteria or not, I was going to watch this anyway purely on the merit of it being part of the MCU timeline. I've enjoyed all the movies so far, but this is the first one that felt "flat" and as if it was just a tiresome chore that just had to be gotten out of the way to make way for better things. Brie Larson is just wooden and lifeless onscreen, the character a mess of cliches and not even Samuel L Jackson could save make this tribute to vanilla interesting. As far as I'm concerned the best character here was the cat and after enduring this intermission to the next Avengers movie it all became clear as to why there was so much hype and hysteria around supposed social justice issues around it: Those are extremely volatile topics at the moment, and as long as people are inflamed on it, they're talking about whatever is attached to it. There truly is no such thing as bad publicity, and the amount of money this boring movie raked in shows it. Marvel knew they had a lukewarm MCU instalment here, so they fanned the flames of the social justic hype machine to let it do it's thing to gloss over a flawed product, and just like Black Panther everyone fell for it yet again.