I don't know if you follow the news at all surrounding this film but the media was really hyping up the fact that Brie Larson made some social justice warrior comments about the press tour that annoyed a bunch of people - and I found their anger kind of acceptable. However, i find the knee-jerk reaction to Hollywood people just doing and saying dumb things almost as annoying as the original actions. People were calling for a boycott and making thousands of negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes as a "backlash" for her comments. I just wanted to see a good movie and Marvel movies, although they tend to have quite weak storylines, are normally very entertaining in the cinema.
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For more than a decade, seeing gigantic blockbuster films was not an option for me because my smaller size city in the south of Thailand very rarely featured films in English - they would have a film like this, but the entire thing would be overdubbed in Thai. I can understand Thai but the emotion in the actor's voices is totally lost when they do this. I do not watch overdubbed movies in any language because you aren't really getting the original product at all when you do this - therefore I just skipped most movies and waited for the online or Netflix release.
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The story follows Vers (Brie Larson) who is a warrior for the Kree Empire. She is apparently an elite operative that infiltrates the number one enemy of the Kree, the Skrulls - a group of creepy looking shape-shifting aliens who can take on the look of anything that they see. The action in the initial attack is wonderful, and the movie doesn't let up from there. The fast-paced nature of this film continues almost without break although there is a bit of a dead zone with Vers having a long string of dialogue about 2/3 of the way through the film.
Vers clearly has immense power, but hasn't yet mastered it and is constantly told by her mentors that she must control her emotions. This is told in the first few minutes of the movie so no, it isn't a spoiler. The training sequences between her and "Yon-Rogg" who is played by a Jude Law that somehow managed to grow back a majority of his badly receding hair are impressive to say the least.
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I liked the way that this film is tied into other aspects of the Marvel Universe, in particular the Avengers, which we all know was left on a bit of an exciting cliffhanger at the conclusion of Avengers: Infinity War.
I found this to be one of the more exciting of the past several Marvel films and thoroughly enjoyed it. However I am not without a bit of complaint in that I feel that Vers is a bit too powerful. She doesn't really appear to have any sort of weakness. I suppose I feel about her the same way that I feel about Thor - too strong. I never read the comic books so I have no idea what her weakness could possibly be. It just makes me feel more bad for Jeremy Renner I suppose.
Overall I would say to not get sucked into the political hype on this one because it was a very nice cinematic experience although i definitely could have done without the 4D aspect of the theater. This movie is well worth the price of admission and I believe it will be a fun ride for kids as well as adults. I can't give it the highest marks because at the end of the day it is still a Marvel film and the predictability of outcome is always something that eliminates their movies from receiving top marks.