Director Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Starring Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn
Rated M
Score 1/6

Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

In all honesty, I was seriously considering waiting until Captain Marvel was released on DVD. I really was, but my curiosity got the better of me. Before I get to far into this review, I would like to make one thing perfectly clear unlike what some of the larger movie studios might say its perfectly okay to love, hate or be completely indifferent about a movie.

In the lead up to the release of Captain Marvel every time I heard something about this movie, I would hear how it was supposed to have some sort of giant feminist agenda. Now maybe I’m a little naive but I really didn’t see it, I thought that some of the scenes that could be construed as having an overtly feminist message as having more of humanist message of ‘picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and getting right back out there’ like young Carol did while Go-Karting. The other reason why I didn’t really see it case of slight of hand by studio marketing executives trying to distract from the fact that at best Captain Marvel was an average movie. This was because the directors Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck and the movie’s writing team seemed to have little or no experience when it comes to making this kind of movie and it showed. I’ll go out on a limb and say that if there was more genre specific experience in the director’s chair that Captain Marvel might have been a good movie. However, I found that I was unable to care about anything to do with the plot of this movie. There was no tension, there seemed to be nothing at stake. In short this was a waste of two hours on a Sunday night at the friendly neighbourhood cinema, though I suppose it was good to see that Ben Mendelsohn was the token Aussie on the cast.

I get it that as a part of the MCU Captain Marvel has had its ticket punched for box office success. However, personally I feel that the 2005 Marvel movie Elektra is a better movie.