Captain Marvel (2019)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2019
	Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson)
	Actors: Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Kong: Skull Island), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, the Hateful Eight), Ben Mendelsohn (Ready Player One, Rogue One)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 11.03.2019, Cineplanet Costanera Center, Santiago
Synopsis: In the 1990's, Kree soldier Verse (Larson) crash lands on Earth after the failure of her first mission. There she will be looking for her origins.
Review: This is the long-awaited first MCU movie with a female lead, released between Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame (which Brie Larson shot before this one). And one of the rare super-hero movies with female lead in general (who said Elektra, Catwoman, Supergirl, Wonder Woman?). Thanks to that and other things it is a bit refreshing from the rest of the contemporary super-hero movies: it is set in a different time period (Captain America: The First Avenger was doing that too), the heroin slowly pieces up her past together a-la-Jason Bourne, it involves aliens but takes place on Earth... My general conclusion is that it was fine to watch and well-done, as you would now expect from any Marvel film, nicely introducing a new period in the MCU and showing us some beloved characters, but it otherwise left me feel slightly saturated by such movies (OK my bad I also watch them too many times) and it is not subtle with references and winks, to the 90's or to the rest of the MCU. In particular I felt the 90's soundtrack too forced on the action, not at all as organically merging with it like James Gunn's choices in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. But as a Marvel follower several things pleased me, or rather Marvel made me feel like I needed to see them to even more enjoy the rest of their Universe. That is in particularly true for the introduction of Captain Marvel character who will play a big role in the upcoming Endgame. How can seriously one await Endgame and not go see Captain Marvel??? Yes that's part of their strategy that makes us money-spending suckers. OK back to the movie, I loved of course Samuel L. Jackson's de-aged Nick Fury which interestingly doesn't look like his character in Pulp Fiction, shot in the 90's. The same goes for fan's favorite Agent Coulson (leader in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). I liked the cat, the girl-friendship story was a bit... girly but OK, the ties to other MCU movies (for a detailed breakdown watch that video from NewRockstars) and I liked the Skrulls story although people complain it is different from the comics. Since Watchmen I realized that a good adaptation has to change major plot lines to a) be more than just an animated copy and b) surprise the audience. And for me the Kree do match what I knew from them from Guardians of the Galaxy and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Let's see how Captain Marvel incorporates in the Avengers. After all, many sequels are planned so she will likely be a big part of the MCU in the future.
Rating: 6 /10