Captain Marvel : Movie Review

A very run of the mill film, contrary to what those who are hyping this film up are saying, the reviews saying it is mediocre are (in fact) the real reviews. As others have stated, Bries acting is very wooden, fury and goose are the most interesting parts of the film. It does have some good action scenes but for the most part there is no peril for this character that allows you to get behind her.

A main point of this film is supposed to be how Carol has been oppressed by various people throughout her earth life and her kree life. We see in memories how people kept telling her she couldn't do things, in the early memories we see this causing her to fall, which is supposed to make us feel for her character but in the later, longer versions of those memories we see that the real reason she falls is her own fault, I.e. in the USAF she is teased for being stuck at the top of a rope and her reaction is to try to "show them" by swinging to the next rope leaping into a double back flip in the process and (unsurprisingly) failing to land it and falling to the floor. In another, whilst in a go kart, she is teased for going too slow and promptly floors the accelerator, the result being that she is going far faster than she can handle and of course she crashes. I'm sorry but this creates no sympathy for her and smashes any narrative they are trying to push.

As for the Kree " holding her back" I have to say that what they do actually makes perfect sense when it comes to restricting her powers.
They encounter a being who has absorbed and unknown energy and as a result has developed super powers, powers that are accessed through emotion. This being, it can be assumed (rather safely I might add), has virtually zero control over their emotions and having no idea how powerful they might be, the Kree fit them with an inhibitor. Bearing in mind when we first meet carol/vers it has been 6 years since she got her powers, that she has been in combat and emotional control training for the entire time. Despite this, it is made clear that she loses control over the slightest frustration and it is no wonder the Kree do not feel willing to free her from those restrictions just yet.
Her mentor (Jude Law) is supposed to be seen as another vile person who is holding her back, yet to anyone who can see past the shallow ideology presented it is obvious that he is in fact trying to help her to learn how to control her emotions, with the goal being that they will finally remove the inhibitor. The fact that he points out that if she were able to control her emotions she wouldn't need to be restricted in her use of her powers merely confirms this.

There are some good buddy cop humour scenes between Carol and Fury, but these are few and I feel the film would have benefited from more of these moments. We see a young Nick Fury who is new to the whole "aliens are real" thing but we can see the beginnings of the Fury we know and love, plus his scenes with Goose are entertaining, especially when he learns what Goose really is.

The end credit scenes are the only part of this film that tie in to endgame, so if that's all you're interested in I'd recommend looking them up on google as there's not much else in this film for you.

On the whole it's OK but nowhere near amazing or the best movie ever or whatever else the hypers are claiming. It is a bog standard origin movie that is made forgettable as our hero is never truly in any danger and there is no epic final battle, just a rather laughable scene where she is challenged to a fair fight and she declines this in an "im not taking orders from you" moment that just compounds the view that she is an arrogant, self opinionated and wholly unrelatable character.