![]() But Larson connects with us instantly, and the film, wisely, just sort of stays out of her way and lets her take over. Vers’ backstory is uncertain for most of the film, and when we find it all out, it’s not particularly revelatory again, we’ve seen it all before. It’s a true movie star performance in which her impressive physicality is just the start of it. But it’s Larson who gives this weight and emotional depth as a woman who doesn’t understand her past, but still knows, somehow, that she is meant for greatness and that she uniquely has the grit to figure out how. We’ve seen a lot of this before, though the ’90s setting is a nice twist and provides a soundtrack that will prove consistently pleasing to any aging Gen Xer. Jackson) and a series of Air Force pilots who provide clues to her past through a supersecret initiative called “Pegasus.” It’s through this that she discovers powers that she couldn’t possibly have understood, and also that, in an amusing ongoing joke, computers worked a lot more slowly in 1995 than they do now.Ĥ. head Nick Fury (a digitally de-aged, and convincingly so, Samuel L. ![]() She ends up, rather conveniently, running into future S.H.I.E.L.D. Vers has no memory of her past, but it returns to her when, in the midst of a battle, she’s dumped onto a distant planet that turns out not only to be Earth, but also her home planet and in the year 1995. The key is Brie Larson, an instantly, almost subconsciously empathetic actress who finds a new, fascinating gear here as Vers who, when we first meet her, is a Kree warrior fighting in outer space with an elite force led by her trainer, Yon-Rogg (Jude Law). ![]() The movie has us on her side before she ever says a word.ģ. Captain Marvel, like many MCU movies, sometimes labors under the weight of having to tell its own story while still connecting to the larger, ongoing saga, but it has no issues with justifying its main character: We see in her eyes, from the first second, what’s different about her. In many of these Marvel origin stories-and by my count, this is the eighth one since the original Iron Man-the movie goes through great pains to explain to us why we should care about this new character, why, with everything else we have to keep track of, we should readily agree to adding one more to the mix. One thing Captain Marvel has going for it that Ant Man and the Wasp didn’t, in addition to a firmer connection we’re all waiting around for, is that it gives us a lead character we can care about and (even more important) an actor who rises to the occasion. That they’ve felt comfortable enough to let us idle here this long to find out what happened to Black Panther, well, it is quite the extended strut.Ģ. This is like if, in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, while you struggled with the new information about Luke’s parentage, Lucasfilm dished you a movie about C-3PO’s origin story and a side quest about Yoda’s dad. Talk about your flex moves! Not only will we you give the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers-seriously, they killed Spider-Man!-and not only will we make you wait a year to find out what happens, we will in fact give you two other movies, featuring only peripherally connected characters, for you sit through while you wait. It remains, when you think about it, absolutely insane that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has featured two new movies, one of which introduces an entirely new character, in between two halves of a nearly six-hour epic where half the cast dies in Part One.
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