Samuel L Jackson and Akira Akbar were great in this movie

Rating: 4/10 (9 March 2019)

I watched Captain Marvel Friday afternoon. I really wanted this to be a good movie. After so many fantastic Marvel movies, I was really hoping that this movie would be another Stan Lee masterpiece. I was underwhelmed. Highlights were the tribute to Stan Lee as well as his cameo. The best acting was Samuel L Jackson, who brings his masterful skill to everything that he does, and Akira Akbar as Monica Rambeau who was brilliant. Goose the cat was also a high point in this movie.
I watched Alita Battle Angel on the opening day. Therefore, I have to compare the two movies. I thought Rosa Salazar was incredible as Alita and I was hoping that Brie Larsen would have a similar performance. She did not. Larsen was OK, but her performance was one dimensional. She was not comparable in any way to what Rosa Salazar brought to Alita. Rosa Salazar brought emotion to her character through the CGI which turned her into Alita (99).Brie Larsen was essentially emotionless throughout Captain Marvel.
The CGI in Captain Marvel was very good, but not as good as Alita Battle Angel. I saw both movies in 3D (not IMAX). If I rate Alita Battle Angel's 3D as 95, then I would have to rate Captain Marvel's 3D as 35 at best. The Captain Marvel 3D did not have 3D objects looking like they were falling into your lap as I saw in Alita Battle Angel and other James Cameron movies. The Captain Marvel distant 3D scenes looked like a series of layers imaged separately and then laid on top of each other without blending them to give a continuous 3D visualization.
Overall, I would rate Captain Marvel as 4 stars out of 10.