Please note my rating on the film itself is my own opinion on the film. To read more on the film and release please refer to the review published by my fellow comrade, Martin Liebman. Larson proves once again why she won herself an Oscar and the filmmakers bring this imaginative science-fiction comic book film to life with style: amazing CGI, world-building, and excitement at every turn. She's a true hero who makes the world a better place. Pun is absolutely intended!Ī firecracker hero with a badass attitude, Carol Danvers (aka Captain Marvel) flies into space with relative ease and fights alien baddies without ever blinking. Winning over both audiences and critics alike, Marvel Studios epic adaptation of the beloved Captain Marvel comic books became a blockbuster success (and the adaptation even had a cameo appearance by the little-known yet long lost video store Blockbuster). Saving the universe is all in a days work for the newest addition to The Avengers: Captain Marvel (Brie Larson). Reviewed by Neil Lumbard, August 14, 2019 But when it comes to making you root for its superhero and eager to see her in more Marvel movies, Captain Marvel passes with flying colors.An incredible spectacle is further heightened with amazing 3D and IMAX sequences The film itself lacks the energy and vision of Black Panther or even Captain America: The First Avenger. By trying to find a fresh approach, the screenplay deprives its lead character of an arc and some of her humanity.
Taken on its own merits, Captain Marvel comes up short as a superhero origin story. Once you throw in the friendship between Captain Marvel and her fellow pilot Maria Rambeau ( Lashana Lynch), you’ve got a film where the characters are doing the heavy lifting and you’re invested in their actions even if the story beats feel staid and the visuals lack swagger.
When Captain Marvel settles into the groove of a buddy movie, it’s an absolutely joy, especially when Mendelsohn comes along to steal every scene that he’s in. Although this Fury is a far cry from the cloak-and-dagger spy we’ve seen in previous Marvel movies, it doesn’t really matter because it’s so much fun watching Larson and Jackson bounce off each other. She’s a superpowered person who doesn’t know her past, discovers her past, remembers her strength, and becomes even more superpowered as a result.Īnd yet I can’t say that the story miscalculations or flat direction ever derailed the film because I was so invested in Captain Marvel, especially once she teams up with Fury. The mystery of her origin is ultimately uninteresting, and it deprives Captain Marvel of a character arc or any notable weaknesses. Unfortunately, that approach leads to other characters telling Captain Marvel who she is, and every time it has to lapse into reveals, it loses sight of her personality. This way the audience is discovering Vers’ origin alongside her. What Boden, Fleck, and co-writer Geneva Robertson-Dworet have done here to try and spice things up is give Vers’ amnesia so that she doesn’t even know her real name let alone where she came from. Origin stories can be a lot of exposition, and we’ve seen them done to death. On the one hand, I sympathize with the three credited screenwriters and the five writers credited with the story.
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That personality becomes absolutely essential in a movie that doesn’t really know how to tell Captain Marvel’s origin story.
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