Captain Marvel, 2019, taking place in 1984 & 1989 on earth, chronologically the next events of the Marvel Universe after Captain America.
Never saw this one in the theaters due to Brie Larson's comments about who she did and didn't want to come seeing her film, an act which should have garnered far more and extreme scrutiny by fans and Marvel Cinema officials, but most seemed to just blow it off.
The film is a lot better than I expected, it's good, bordering on very good but not great, like a lot of the MCU it has a lot of holes and questions.
We open with Vers (pronounced, veers) who is an operative for the Kree Empire, and her training with her supervisor/commander Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) and being told about her "true potential", which they refer to enough that it should have raised your eyebrow. The Kree's war with the Skrulls is hot and heavy, in a mission to rescue an informant, Veers is captured and promptly escapes with help from her plasma blasts from her hands.
Ending up on earth, after crashing through the roof of a Blockbuster Video, Veers encounters a two-eyed Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) and his rookie partner, Coulson (Clark Gregg), who pursue Veers as a potential enemy as she battles skrulls across Los Angeles. We also see the early signs of Coulson's diehard like loyalty to Fury begin to come out.
The action and story really move well, the swerves are pretty well done, obvious but still well done, but we eventually realize, along with Veers, that her real name is Carol Danvers and she's not Kree but from Earth.
The new story behind her powers is really good and makes the film, as does her finally realizing her true potential. You should bet a bit excited when she finally lets loose, it's a great scene.
In this film, we also learn how Fury lost his eye... really Nick?!? Not to mention, some of the stuff that Fury pulls in this one, it's a wonder he was eventually given command of SHIELD. 😆 And also how a certain team he would later get together got its name.
Pulling at some sympathetic heartstrings along the way really helped this film, without them, it wouldn't be half the film it is, forget the power, the backstory and secondary characters make the movie. It's not until the end that you really feel the size and scope of the war between the Kree & Skrulls, they should have put that weight on us far earlier. Once you see one particular person, you know who are the bad guys in this one.
Sad that Cap and her is all that the world gets before the 2000's, the MCU could have/should have been given more. Again, I've got my take on what the MCU timeline should have looked like coming up on January 1st 2022. 😉
The film gets 🌟🌟 and a half out of five ... and watch out for that damn cat ... SERIOUSLY... whatever happened to that thing??? 😺💥
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