Review of Captain Marvel (2019) by Mandeth — 09 Mar 2019

I thought Brie Larson would be the worst part of the movie based upon her acting in the movie clips and trailers. But I think the writing out stunk her performance. Yes, Larson was terrible. She has no unique style or charisma and is quite bland and not worthy to headline a big budget movie that needs the audience to actually care about her character. The combination of misguided, amateur writing, and Larson's bizarre acting, made the Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel character seem like a hollow, impossible to relate to robot. And that's saying something when it took Anthony Daniels like 2 minutes to make C3P0 interesting in Star Wars A New Hope. Even the radio controlled R2D2 was a more sympathetic character than Captain Marvel.

Yeah, I know Larson is getting bashed harshly, but I'm not going easy on the critique because of that. She was playing a heroine, but came across like Sean Young's Blade Runner replicant or Kristanna Loken's T-X from Terminator: Rise Of The Machines. As I watched the movie, I couldn't stop looking at Larson like I would a car wreck. It was surreal and creepy. I'm not familiar with her acting but surely she does not act like that in every movie. But as I said, the story and all of it's many bad ideas was the worst thing about the movie. Marvel & the writers made their first misstep by setting it in the 90s all so they could retcon the MCU's past and make Danvers the first Avenger. The movie seemed to drag forever and contrary to reports...NO ONE SHINED IN THIS MOVIE!! Sam Jackson's Nick Fury was supposed to be younger but he seemed like a tired old man. Clark Gregg should have been used better. The bits with the cat were one of the worst things in any movie, EVER! The finale was like watching Superman VS The Riddler. I can't even call that a final fight. I am amazed that Marvel would make such a bad movie, even though Doctor Strange, Spider-Man Homecoming and both Ant-Man movies were flat lined bores. Infinity War was vastly overrated. But Captain Marvel....so bad it's possibly worse than Iron Man 2 and Thor 2.