The County Press

Captain Marvel shows off girl power


 

 

I wanted to love this movie, I really did. I just can’t.

It’s not that Captain Marvel Stars: Brie Larson, Jude Law, is a bad movie, it’s not.

It’s a good movie. Maybe Samuel L. Jackson even great. Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

It’s tougher trying to figure Rating: PG-13 out what I didn’t like about it. I’ll go with the directing. Running time: 124 minutes

The duo of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck wrote the screenplay and co-directed the movie and have a history of working together, though I’m not familiar with anything they’ve done, I’ll blame them for the lack of heart and underwhelming acting performances.

But it’s like I read, a Marvel Phase One movie in the middle of Phase Three.

The movie starts out on the planet of Kree with Vers (Brie Larson, Kong: Skull Island) suffering a nightmare involving an older woman whom she does not recognize. Vers is having memory problems and can only glimpse moments of her past.

 

 

She wakes her mentor and commander, Yon- Rogg (Jude Law, The Talented Mr. Ripley) to work out.

Yon-Rogg is also bothered by her nightmares and sets her up to visit the ‘Supreme Intelligence.’ The Supreme Intelligence is an organic artificial intelligence who acts as the ruler of Kree and it urges her to try to keep her emotions in check.

Later on a rescue mission to save an undercover Kree spy, their group is ambushed by a group of Skrulls — the group the Kree have been at war with — and Vers is captured.

After the Skrulls’ commander Talos (Ben Mendlesohn, Ready Player One) can’t seem to find what they need in her memories, she escapes. And along with her escape, some of her memories return.

However, during her escape, she accidentally ends up on Earth in 1995.

Shield agents Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction) and his rookie partner Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) are called in to control the invading aliens.

Seeing Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser and Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer for the first time since Guardians of the Galaxy was nice, as was the return of Coulson after getting killed by Loki in The Avengers.

Again, Captain Marvel is a good movie, but the uninspired acting in the first half of the movie drags down the excitement when Captain Marvel shows just what she can do.

— Lee Morse