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• Adventure
• Fantasy

• 2019
• Ryan Fleck
• 118 mins
• 12

Summary

Fantasy action adventure starring Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson and Jude Law. Vers, an officer in the intergalactic organisation Starforce, suffers from memory loss and mysterious visions. Evading enemy capture, she finds herself on Earth in 1995 where she teams up with SHIELD agent Nick Fury. It soon turns out that Vers may be Carol Danvers, a human pilot presumed dead - but between Starforce, her Earth pals and the alien Skrulls, who can she possibly trust?

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Terry Staunton

Oscar winner Brie Larson is a classy addition to the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, here playing a tough intergalactic warrior who falls to Earth in 1990s California, plagued by fragmented memories of a former life among the humans. Aided by Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury, an up-and-coming agent yet to ascend to the higher echelons of SHIELD so familiar from other movies in the franchise, the good captain (aka Carol Danvers) has to use all her cunning and superpowers to protect the planet from warring alien races, the Kree and the shapeshifting Skrulls. Larson makes for a likeable heroine with some kick-ass moves, but tends to make the biggest impression when verbally sparring with Jackson, and there's top-notch support from Ben Mendelsohn (seemingly unhampered by head-to-toe prosthetics) and Annette Bening. The character of Captain Marvel still needs fleshing out more fully, but that is sure to come in future instalments from the MCU, not least Avengers: Endgame.

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6.7/10

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Cast

rolenameCarol Danvers / Vers / Captain MarvelBrie LarsonNick FurySamuel L JacksonYon-RoggJude LawTalos / KellerBen MendelsohnSupreme Intelligence / Dr Wendy LawsonAnnette BeningMinn-ErvaGemma ChanAgent CoulsonClark GreggRonanLee PaceKorathDjimon HounsouMaria RambeauLashana LynchBron-CharRune TemteMonica Rambeau (11 years old)Akira AkbarStan LeeStan Lee

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rolenameDirectorRyan FleckDirectorAnna Boden

Details

Theatrical distributor

Walt Disney

Released on

2019-03-08

Languages

English

Guidance

Some violence and swearing

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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