This had so much potential, and wasted it all

Rating: 3/10 (9 March 2019)

I really hoped this movie would would be good, honestly I did. I walked into the cinema, forgot everything I heard about this movie before and hoped it would be as good as Wonder Woman.
2 hours later I walked out of the cinema and was thoroughly disappointed. Let me explain:
1. Carol Danvers felt like an emotionless robot. No wait, that is an insult to Ultron, she felt like an emotionless brick.
This is NOT how I wanted to start this, (considering the current Brie Larson controversy) but it's definitely one of this movies biggest problems. I honestly don't know if it's the actor's fault or if she was just told to behave that way by whoever wrote the script, but dammit Marvel, you could have done this way better. Just look at the above mentioned Wonder woman, or Alita Battle angel. Or maybe at Valkyrie in YOUR thor ragnarok?
2. Way too much 90s nostalgia. It would have been cool in small amounts, but the 90s theme dominated the entire movie.
3. The cgi. I myself work in the computer graphics industry, and quite frankly I am tempted to kill whoever thought it was a good idea to de-age one of the lead characters for the entire movie. It's well done most of the time, but from time to time it just fails in a painfully obvious way that totally breaks immersion. Feels like a step back after the incredible job that was done to create Thanos.
4. The plot. It's like they took the Superhero 101 formula, made the hero female and then expected to create something new and engaging. Spoiler warning: they did not.
5. Some other stuff: The humor felt too forced from time to time, the pacing was all sorts of wrong in my opinion, there are some minor plotholes that jsut don't make sense. I went into far more detail in my previous reviews, but am too tired to do that again. See #7 below.
6. Marketing and Release: Let's ignore all the Brie Larson for now. But who the hell thought it was a good idea to introduce a major new character mere months before the climax they have been working towards for years? I realized after watching approximately half the movie that I would have to see Captain marvel in Endgame as a lead character. That realization made it a lot more difficult to enjoy the rest of the movie.
And attempting to market a product by abusing feminism or with a dead man's Twitter account just feels wrong. I did not let this influence the my rating of this movie, but i still felt that it should be said. Shame on you, Marvel/Disney.
7. Damage control: Apparently someone decided to do some damage control when a lot of negative reviews started coming in. Sure, some of them might have been troll reviews, but as far as I can tell a good chunk of them were not. My reviews for this movie have already been removed 2 times before, and both of them were far more detailed than this one.
Having said all this I do want to also say that there also were some good things. The cat was a nice touch, as was the Stan Lee cameo. The potential for more was definitely there, but it was never really used. That's why I believe that it's a mediocre movie at best.