With Great Power Comes Great Oddness

Rating: 5/10 (10 March 2019)

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound! Err, wrong Universe. Well, meet MCU's newly introduced all-mighty superhero: Captain "I am not Shazam!" Marvel aka Carol Danvers.
Disney finally decided to include a Superman-esque type of Avenger as a secret weapon against evil Thanos, who decimated half of the Universe during "Avengers: Infinity War". Unfortunately, by doing so they've almost ruined the shared Universe they were building in several ways.
When You have established franchise with 20 movies in a row, scripts should be very carefully written and tied with one another or You will face a real mess for the future installments. All Carol's personal history in this movie is a retcon, a very bad storytelling practice from comics, when new elements are being re-told or tied in to existing timeline in the past (most iconic examples: long lost brothers / sisters / fathers / mothers that were long believed dead, etc).
We meet Carol in best traditions of soap operas: title heroine is suffering from strange dreams & amnesia. Main plot it is circling around personal struggle of young girl to be recognized by male colleagues / superiors as a test pilot / member of alien marine team and to find the answer to "Who am I?" question.
Despite the fact, that movie is about adventures of a brave young woman, film itself is afraid of everything. The story of re-capturing herself as a human being was told by small fragments, without significant development. It is hard to resist to compare Captain Marvel to Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot's character faced much wider spectrum of human feelings and thus added deepness to Diana's personality. We are not allowed to see Carol vulnerable, making hard choices (maybe, only till the end of the movie), anger - is the most widely used emotion. Even the moment of re-uniting with a friend of her was scrapped in favor of comedic reliefs. It is hard to find yourself attached to at least somebody in this film.
Writers failed to deliver decent answer to most hot question: why Captain Marvel was absent during all events of "Avengers" 1 / 2, "Thor: The Dark World" - or alien invasions were too "small" for Fury to call her via magic pager? Fury from all-knowing mastermind was downgraded to smart-mouth partner, who is constantly delivering jokes, even the magic about his eye patch resulted to a silly comedic feline-related scene. Remember the line "The last time I've trusted somebody, I've lost an eye?" from "Winter Soldier"? Now this line looks idiotic.
The movie was promoted to mean something for feminist movement and young girls, labeled as "masterpiece". Unfortunately, it is not. Captain Marvel is slightly better, then Black Panther, but raises too many uncomfortable questions. For example, if movie makers were targeting diversity in the cast, why again we are looking to the story of white savior (ok, female white savior) with black friend and a black sidekick (sorry, Nickolas J. Fury!)? You know, Kamala Khan is also available as a "Miss Marvel". Why the story of "evil terrorists turned refugees pursued by technologically advanced civilization" sounds familiar (who said Muslims?).
Brie Larson's performance was not stunning just because she has not enough material to play. Samuel L. Jackson and a Goose formed a very interesting scene-stealing alliance and Jude Law formed a solid warrior character. The sad thing about Captain Marvel is number of missed opportunities: the Starforce team, acceptance of human nature, reintegration to human society - dozens of them.
I cannot imagine, how writers of the "Avengers: Endgame" will resolve such powerful character, as Carol Danvers (why we need Avengers, after all, if we have her?) and will resolve continuity problems without creating much worse issues.