The "Green Lantern" of the MCU.

Rating: 2/10 (12 March 2019)

After Thor Ragnarok and Infinity War my expectations have been pretty high. But what happened? Well, it seems as if this movie is merely there to introduce Captain Marvel before Endgame, nothing more, nothing less. But unfortunately you have to make a 2 hour movie out of that introduction.
Brie Larson is a great actress. Except that in Captain Marvel she just isn't. She shows zero emotion, although there are many scenes where she could. She has pretty much zero character development and the story of the movie is so old and boring, I was literally shocked by how boring it really was.
Marvel had such a high standard with their movies in the last couple of years. Winter Soldier, Civil War, Guardians, Black Panther, Ragnarok, Infinity War, Spiderman... I was not expecting that the penultimate movie of the MCU would be on the level of Thor 1 or Iron Man 2. But unfortunately it is.
The CGI seems to not be on par with the others, the story definitely is far from it, the acting as well.
And then there's the all that striking 90s nostalgia, which is really just annoying. Street Fighter here, 90s music there, references to Grunge, VHS, etc. It's just not really built into the movie organically, but only to constantly tell you "REMEMBER, IT'S 1995 IN THIS MOVIE!!!"
Found it annoying, although I was a teenager in the 90s and could emotionally attach to all of it.
This movie is too light-hearted as well, with no real threat at all and a comedic Nick Fury. (who was actually pretty great in this mess of a movie, I must say).
Long story short: for me - and please not it is my own personal opinion - this movie is the Green Lantern of the MCU.