Meh. It was okay.
If you’re a hardcore anti-feminist dudebro
looking for ammo for your agenda, please look elsewhere. I don’t care about the
politics surrounding the film and just want to watch good movies, and if you’re
trying to polarize me one way or the other, you should probably just piss off.
Also, if you’re a hardcore anti-feminist
dudebro in general, grow the fuck up.
Seriously.
The fact is, Captain Marvel has merits – it
does a couple of cool things for the MCU’s worldbuilding, there are a couple of
neat twists, and some of the jokes made me laugh. It’s just that what merits it
has aren’t enough to make up for an ultimately mediocre film.
Brie Larson is, thankfully, the highlight
of the film. She does the best that she can with the screenplay, but Captain
Marvel is so inconsistently characterized that it’s hard to care about her. One
moment she’s a super-serious space cop, the next she’s trading quips with Samuel
L. Jackson, and then there’s this really forced “girl power” aspect to her
characterization near the end.
The cinematography is all over the place.
It can be confusing at times, and there’s nary a hint of directorial style anywhere.
Now, it’s unfair to expect everyone to be Taika Waititi or James Gunn, but come
on people. The fight scenes are at least mildly entertaining, if not on the
same level as Winter Soldier’s or Civil War’s.
Ultimately, there’s nothing Captain Marvel
does that other MCU films don’t do better. Guardians 2 is a better space film. Thor:
Ragnarok is a better film about a ridiculously strong protagonist. First
Avenger is a better time period piece. Winter Soldier is a better spy thriller.
It kind of feels like the TGI Friday’s of MCU movies; okay-to-mediocre at a lot
of things, but not the best at any of them.
And that sucks, because I’ve seen the
impact a film about a marginalized group can have. Black Panther and Wonder
Woman made waves when they dropped. Captain
Marvel, by comparison, is just…eh. Another MCU film to add to the list. Competently
made but little else, and certainly not memorable enough to rank on the same
level as those two films.
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