More enjoyable than Wonder Woman.

Rating: 6/10 (4 April 2019)

What has super-human powers, can absorb pure energy, suffers from situational amnesia, and keeps on getting up after getting knocked down? Brie Larson, that's the answer.
Origin stories, let's be fair, are often unoriginal in the sense that the hero has to overcome the trials and tribulations of life by metamorphosing from an immature, emotional self, into the fully realized image of a selfless hero, severing links to the past and charting bridges toward an unknown future. Most people turn to alcohol or drugs, but Captain Marvel toughens up and absorbs pure energy, so much so that her hands glow and her eyes glow and I forget for sure but I think even her teeth glow, although that could be chalked up to wishful thinking.
Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman drummed up a flurry of discussion about whether she made a feminist statement. Brie Larson's Captain Marvel doesn't bother, because what makes her special and important is that she can light up her fists, her eyes, and probably her teeth as she zooms around the universe in search of justice and meaning, two concepts which may or may not be mutually exclusive.
As the Marvel Universe winds down toward its own endgame, movies like Captain Marvel make us wonder whether it's truly possible to spoil a moviegoer's experience by leaking plot points, or whether the spoilage is merely little more than superhero fatigue.