“You got a big decision to make.”

From Captian Marvel.

Vers (Brie Larson) is a woman tormented by cryptic dreams and a past she can’t remember. For the past 6 years, she has been training to hone the special Kree abilities she’s been given and be a warrior for her people all in order to hunt down Skrulls, the shape-shifting alien invaders led by Talos (Ben Mendelsohn). When she is finally allowed on a mission, she is placed on a team (including Gemma Chan and Djimon Hounsou) led by her friend and mentor Yon-Rogg (Jude Law). However, the mission goes wrong and Vers is captured by the Skrulls and her memories scanned for information; the scan triggers several long-forgotten and confusing memory fragments for Vers, but she is able to escape and crash land onto Earth… in 1995. While trying to understand the strange world she has found herself in, she’s also being pursued by the Skrulls and a young S.H.I.E.L.D agent named Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). While waiting for Yon-Rogg to arrive, Vers convinces Fury to be a reluctant ally in her plan to stop the Skrulls from hunting down a pilot (Lashana Lynch) and a powerful hyperdrive created by an Air Force scientist (Annette Bening). On her mission to protect the galaxy, things are further complicated when Vers discovers that she has a past and life on Earth, as the human pilot Carol Danvers. Fighting to learn the truth, Carol finds that the deception surrounding her ties deeply with the Kree/Skrull conflict in ways she never could have imagined.

While slower in pace than some other Marvel origin stories, this one does manage to squeeze lots of action into the later part of the film. Larson can come off a bit flat early on, but once she remembers her past, the attitude works well for character development. Jackson is hilarious in his “younger” role, stealing the comedic spotlight and the time period is also fun to look back on for slightly-older viewers. Captain Marvel is a solid addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that’s filled with action, plot twists, and interesting developments for the Marvel franchise.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 124 minutes |Genre: superhero/action |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 1 of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 3 of 10

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