GENRE:
Action Adventure
RATING:
PG-13 for sci-fi action violence
RUNTIME: 2 hours and 4 minutes
RUNTIME: 2 hours and 4 minutes
STARRING:
Brie Larson (Room, The Glass Castle,
Kong: Skull Island)
Samuel
L Jackson (The Avengers), Ben
Mendelsohn (Star War 7 & 8)
DIRECTORS:
Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck (It’s Kind of
a Funny Story)
WRITERS:
Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Tomb Raider 2018 version)
Boden
& Fleck (Half Nelson)
PLOT:
Carol Danvers recalls a past life when she is caught between a war between two
alien races.
FULL DISCLOSURE: Knew nothing about this superhero.
STORY STUFF: I had a hard time getting invested with the first twenty
minutes of the movie as it dealt with the alien war. Once it lands on earth,
the story is a lot of fun and full of action and humour. The fact that it takes
place in the nineties is a bonus.
ACTING STUFF: Larson is awesome, she is engaging at all times. You can
tell that Jackson is having a lot of fun playing a younger version of himself;
that fun is contagious. Also enjoyed the work of Mendelsohn. I found Jude Law
and Annette Benning pretty boring. I don’t think they needed big names for
those roles. I’m not really a cat person but I loved Goose.
ARTISTIC STUFF: There are great special effects throughout but the
highlight for me was the nineties nostalgia. Great to see Blockbuster again (I
used to work there) and the soundtrack made me smile. Also, the Marvel logo
intro was classy and almost choked me up a little.
VERDICT:
Four and a half stars out of five
SEE IT IF:
You are a Marvel or a nineties fan.
UPCOMING REVIEWS: Dumbo, Shazam!
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