Movie Review: Captain Marvel

THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS.

It has been awhile since I wrote a review for the blog and I would like to apologise for the long wait because I was focusing on my school work and working hard to achieve the results I wanted which will be released this Friday. It is scary, I know, but there is nothing much I can do about it except to tell myself that I did put in lots of efforts. Furthermore, I was too stressed to come up with a review for The Favourite which I saw in the cinema last month and it was amazing especially the cast’s acting performances, and so many other reviews which I would probably have to cast one side since this is not the primary focus of today’s review.

So today, I would be reviewing on what I thought about Marvel’s new entry, Captain Marvel. I am sure that almost everyone has already caught the movie on cinemas some time ago since this movie was out for awhile now and with the latest trailer of Avengers’ End Game released last week, I am also certain that this review will be carefully read upon and provides a leading factor for whether to consider skipping or watching. In this case, you know that any Marvel movie that is out will surely need to be watched before anything since everything is all linked and this latest superhero’s story is one of them.

In my opinion, Captain Marvel is the start of the modern era for the Avengers. Setting primarily in the 1990s starring Brie Larson as the titular heroine in the story, we follow her journey as a Kree warrior who is under a commander, Yon-Rogg (portrayed by Jude Law) and how she went on a mission with the team up to the part where she was left stranded on Earth (called as Planet C-53 to the people back in Kree). As we follow her journey, we start to slowly learn about her previous life including the early part of the movie where we saw as her ‘nightmare’ – only to figure out it was more than a nightmare, it was part of something real that can help her find out her true identity.

Alongside the journey of the heroine, we also encountered familiar faces from S.H.I.E.L.D – Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), except they looked much more youthful thanks to digital de-aging visual effects technique employed. I was really impressed with the de-aging especially how they really resembled like their young selves back in the 90s and consider this is the first time Marvel gone full-fledged to keep this young look throughout the movie, I would say this is amazing. Aside from that, the flow of the story including the flashbacks were all proportionally used well throughout the movie and there wasn’t any abrupt moments except to feel inspired and the momentum of being gradually powerful – just as the heroine of the story.

The acting performances from the cast were great too. You felt like they were in their roles and when they delivered their lines, you just felt something from them. Captain Marvel is a movie that brings closer to home especially for the heroine whose actual name was Carol, a pilot for the US Air Force and was tragic because she went on a mission that almost ended her life. She saw the person she respected died in front of her whose thoughts are for a good cause and worst of all – she was brainwashed. As the movie progresses, you feel terrible for the character because of how much the truth just taken away from her and how much her potential was just kept away like that.

I could go on and on about the movie especially how much I really enjoyed the build up for Captain Marvel from the beginning to the end, every transformation shows much powerful she is as a heroine and as a human, so much potential in the character which I would love to see more of and a great job to the production for bringing us this needed (and refreshing) entry to the cinematic universe – a strong yet determined heroine and most importantly, a human and friend with compassion.

Ratings: 8/10

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