Shazam

Us

I remember 'Get Out' with fondness.. Granted, it took me a little longer to see it than everyone else, probably down to my general fear of the horror movie genre but I was glad I did.

Captain Marvel

As Blockbuster season slowly lumbers into view like a routinely wounded Optimus Prime in, frankly ANY of Michael Bay's eye-bleedingly bad Transformers movies (except perhaps the first one), I find myself teetering on the precipice of, not only the first 'Midnight showing' of the year but more importantly the first MARVEL movie of the year.. In a year which will see Spider-Man head to Europe and the X-Men.. erm, do their x-men thing (in two movies), and let's not forget Avengers:Endgame (more about that later) and Captain Marvel has been tasked with starting off the box-office, billion dollar, unstoppable juggernaut.. so to speak.. 

No pressure then.

This one is from Marvels back catalogue and basically an origin story. I think IMDb summed it up best when they said 'Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.' (yep, that pretty well nails it)

Brie Larson plays the aforementioned Carol Danvers and yes, as has been mentioned everywhere the dialogue is rubbish.  But that's like saying the dialogue in Predator or Rambo II is rubbish, it doesn't really matter.  So long as the action... erm.. speaks louder.. And here it "sort of" does..

The problem is Marvels fault. They've set their own bar very high..

That's not to say it's a bad film.. Far from it. Even a "bad" Marvel film is streets ahead of most 'Blockbuster' fodder.. Maybe its down to the fact that its 3.00am and really nothing looks good this time of the morning when I've got to get up in 3 hours..

Ok then I'll give it a solid ***1/2 stars. Needs a second, sociable hour viewing to be sure..

Alita Battle Angel (2nd viewing)