There aren’t many movies with a female lead, especially in the action genre. On March 8, the Marvel Cinematic Universe released another worldwide movie known as Captain Marvel. This is Marvel’s first female lead and what makes it even more powerful is that the film opened on International Women’s Day.
The all-powerful Carol Danvers is played by the equally powerful Brie Larson. You may have seen Larson in Kong: Skull Island, Room, or Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; however, this 2019 film is her biggest breakthrough.
Captain Marvel is about a U.S. Air Force Pilot, Danvers, turned extraterrestrial Kree warrior caught in an intergalactic battle between her people and the infamous Skrulls, a presumably evil group of alien shapeshifters. She then crashes on an unknown planet called C-53, a.k.a. Earth, in 1995. The longer the warrior is on the planet, the more she has flashbacks to another life as her human counterpart, Carol Danvers. With help from Nick Fury, Captain Marvel tries to uncover the secrets of her past while harnessing her powers to put an end to the war with the Skrulls.
Though the film jumps right into the action with an intense fight between Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) and Vers (Larson), the pacing is extremely slow. The first half-hour of “Captain Marvel” is a jumble, constantly shifting among realities. The film doesn’t really flow well until Vers finds herself on Planet C-53.
She arrives tumbling into a Blockbuster Video store. (Rest in peace, Blockbuster. You were the true rent-a-movie store.) From there, the film has a much lighter mood. Vers meets a man most Marvel fanatics know, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Nick Fury is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. These unlikely allies begin to solve the mystery of Vers’ past, including navigating a lively labyrinth of ‘90s-era that have “Rock the Vote” posters, internet cafes, cell phones looking like Zack Morris’s. And, don’t forget the agony of waiting for a CD-ROM to open on a slow computer.
Though it may be a filler until the next Marvel movie, it is still a great origin movie for Danvers. This movie is overall a fun watch and lives up to its hype. Look out for Captain Marvel in the upcoming Avengers movie. We’re in the endgame now.
The all-powerful Carol Danvers is played by the equally powerful Brie Larson. You may have seen Larson in Kong: Skull Island, Room, or Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; however, this 2019 film is her biggest breakthrough.
Captain Marvel is about a U.S. Air Force Pilot, Danvers, turned extraterrestrial Kree warrior caught in an intergalactic battle between her people and the infamous Skrulls, a presumably evil group of alien shapeshifters. She then crashes on an unknown planet called C-53, a.k.a. Earth, in 1995. The longer the warrior is on the planet, the more she has flashbacks to another life as her human counterpart, Carol Danvers. With help from Nick Fury, Captain Marvel tries to uncover the secrets of her past while harnessing her powers to put an end to the war with the Skrulls.
Though the film jumps right into the action with an intense fight between Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) and Vers (Larson), the pacing is extremely slow. The first half-hour of “Captain Marvel” is a jumble, constantly shifting among realities. The film doesn’t really flow well until Vers finds herself on Planet C-53.
She arrives tumbling into a Blockbuster Video store. (Rest in peace, Blockbuster. You were the true rent-a-movie store.) From there, the film has a much lighter mood. Vers meets a man most Marvel fanatics know, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Nick Fury is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. These unlikely allies begin to solve the mystery of Vers’ past, including navigating a lively labyrinth of ‘90s-era that have “Rock the Vote” posters, internet cafes, cell phones looking like Zack Morris’s. And, don’t forget the agony of waiting for a CD-ROM to open on a slow computer.
Though it may be a filler until the next Marvel movie, it is still a great origin movie for Danvers. This movie is overall a fun watch and lives up to its hype. Look out for Captain Marvel in the upcoming Avengers movie. We’re in the endgame now.