Randy Feathers

This is the first time that I've truly been disappointed with an MCU film. After all, they're comic book movies, so some suspension of disbelief is required to truly enjoy them. Having said that, I don't know that too any degree one could suspend their disbelief to the point that this film becomes enjoyable on any level. I'm not even sure what marvel was trying to do here, other than pander to the perception that we are in some sort of tidal swell of feminist theory that simply doesn't exist in reality. And, even that was the endgame (see what I did there), it was as monumental a failure as my egregious pun, for exactly the same reason. As a feminist film, it hit all of the tropes so on the nose that it just came off as a bad joke. Like someone mocking feminism would try to make, and I'm sure that was not the intent. Indeed, one could make a superhero film with a strong message of female empowerment. How do I know this? Well Patty Jenkins did it 3 years ago. But, more than that, Wonder Woman was a good movie. Captain Marvel just isn't. Putting messaging aside for the moment, just as a film in general, its fragmented and boring. Clearly there was no distinct direction that the script was trying to drive towards. The titular character has absolutely no development and no charisma as should be required to carry a character driven movie. Brie Larson is a fine actress, but her portrayal of this character could have been played as easily well by Vin Diesel's characterization of Groot. All I got from her was "I'm super powerful, and I don't know why, but don't question anything I do because I'm snarky and condescending. Girl Power! Rawr!" Her character doesn't earn anything. There is literally no character arc at all. Carol Danvers is exactly the same person she was from beginning to end of the movie. In a character piece, there has to be some evolution of the character or there is no story. And that is what this movie felt like. Brie Larson was a supporting actor to Ben Mendelsohn, Samuel L Jackson, and an orange tabby in a movie about the horrors of an apartheid state. Not a super exciting take considering District Nine did a superb job of telling that story in a sci fi format. So what did this movie even want to be? I really don't know what anyone involved in this project was going for. The script is all over the place as far as maintaining some relatively important established facts in the MCU and cheapening already established story arcs. I really don't have the desire to spend a lot of time breaking down a horrible film, but suffice it to say, this is the worst Marvel film I've seen since, maybe, the second Ghost Rider film. In the actual MCU, my least favorite was Thor 2, possibly The Incredible Hulk, but those two films were masterpieces comparative to this dumpster fire of a film