Captain Marvel
I watched this today and was pleasantly surprised. It's a solid movie, and one I feel happy to have watched at the cinema. As is well known on here I wasn't looking forward to this film at all. But it is an MCU movie and my daughter was showing a lot more interest in this than any other superhero movie so far, so my hands were tied.
The film is much better than the majority of origin stories, mainly because it starts off with a fully powered hero. Great start. And the film doesn't really let up either, the breaks in the action are frequent but entertaining, and most of the action scenes are really well put together.
The CGI de-ageing on Samuel L Jackson is really well done, but not so convincing when it comes to Clark Gregg. It's not terrible but not the best. And the third act battle scene CGI is far better than Black Panther's final act but isn't anywhere comparable to anything in Infinity War.
And then we come to the actors and characters. SLJ as Fury is as perfect as always, Jude Law is (amazingly, as I do not like Jude Law) quite convincing in his role, Brie Larson is really good, much better than the trailers made her out to be(!), and Anette Benning is there as well. But my favourite performance came from Ben Mendelsohn as the Skrull Talos, he had some of the films best lines.
Finally, and more personally, this was my daughter's first MCU film at the cinema and also her first live action film as well, (she's still 5) and she watched the whole film, no issues. I had prepped her with Spider Verse but I was expecting her to want to leave half way through, so it also gets plus points for holding her attention as well.
8.5/10
