Captain Marvel is a bedfellow with Black Panther where the conversation surrounding the film is bigger than movie itself. Wonder Woman is a film that Captain Marvel aspires to be and misfires in almost every category. The source of that reason is harder to place. Perhaps it was a film made by committee, but the phoned-in Larsen performance and poor direction renders this fish-out-of-water story flopping aimlessly. Honestly, they could have Mad-libbed the screenplay for Wonder Woman with minor tweaks and probably churned out something more effective in its storytelling, but every choice seems to be done with shrugged shoulders. The acting, stunt choreography, character arc, plot, visual style and storytelling all feels corporate and indistinct.
But will the cultural and political maelstrom swirling around this movie allow me to critique it honestly? It seems that anything negative said about this movie will wrangle me into some kind of political conversation I don’t want to participate in.
So, I’ll give the movie a 6/10 because I’d rather not have a guy in a black ski mask spray paint a swastika on my driveway alongside the MAGA-hat wearing guy spray-painting a Pepe the frog.
It was fine?
