Marvellously underwhelming, a-ha-ha!

Rating: 6/10 (21 March 2019)

So I was rather disappointed by this movie, I think it may be the worst thing Marvel has put out in years. It might very well be making its money right now but that doesn't make it a good movie by any means. It's just another one of those throwaway flicks you can watch once and then be happy to never watch again. It's so obvious that it's been rushed out just to get her into the MCU in time for Endgame and it shows in practically every aspect, they don't spend enough time developing either her or the story and the damn thing only becomes really fun in the last twenty minutes and that's just the truth of it, it's really not that good of a movie. I think part of the problem for me personally is that I'm very much invested in the story and characters of the Avengers and then along comes this character out of nowhere that I know virtually nothing about and I'm meant to root for and care about her? Uh I don't think so, because Brie Larson was a walking brick, she wasn't even likeable, the Skrull leader came off as more approachable and human than she did! She was without a doubt the least interesting thing about her own movie and her arc wasn't even really the main focus, I never got a real grasp on who she was meant to be as a character, she was just too cold and stoic for me to connect to or care about, it was like that lame female Terminator from T3 had gotten a starring role! I don't care what award Larson has won because she sure stunk up the joint as far as this movie goes! She was too untouchable, she just constantly plowed through everything, there was never a moment when she was beaten down and had to make her way back up and she was never truly vulnerable. And when she got all of her power back at the end and became a frickin flying fireball who was packing enough firepower to demolish a gigantic starship and a barrage of deadly missiles all by herself...what are you supposed to do with that exactly? Even the Hulk lost a tooth once! She was the very definition of overpowered.. I wanted to love the movie and her, but I just wasn't having any fun and I could not for the life of me get into it, it felt like a movie that was just going through the motions to me, the only real thing that made it okay was that it looked good. And it was certainly no woman power movie, it was too sloppily made and plain dumb to be that movie. Wonder Woman, was that movie, and it didn't have to beat you over the head with its more feminist elements in order for you to get them! Ladies, you can do better! The only character I really enjoyed was the Ben Mendelsohn one, he made a real character even through all that nifty makeup and I didn't see the twist with him and his people coming, that was a neat surprise. And the Nick Fury thing I didn't have a problem with, how he was acting differently or the de-aging special effect because it was looking pretty flawless to me, but Jackson's trademark banter did to me feel really off to the point that his scenes with her felt very forced and awkward, they had no chemistry at all. And there was too much emphasis on the silly cat, the little guy was cute but he was a bit too Men In Black for me once he got the Cthulhu maw going! So for me just not particularly fun or all that worthwhile overall, I was so disappointed. She feels very much out of place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and I for one don't care to see very much more of her in the future.. A basic superhero movie that left me cold, generic and nothing special. A horribly shoehorned-in effort and a real misstep for Marvel at a time when they've been having such a great run, passably enjoyable at best.