On a covert mission to rescue an undercover spy, Vers is captured by Skrulls and subjected to a memory probe that leaves her with more pieces to a puzzle that makes less and less sense. The Skrulls are terrorists, indiscriminate in their carnage. Vers is strong willed and a mystery even to herself, and while she can't remember the circumstances that brought her to Hala, she knows she's fighting for justice. Overall, it's an entertaining origin story of Captain Marvel as well as a rousing feminist saga as Carol discovers who she is and what she's capable of.Īnna Putting females at the forefront of these superhero sagas has certainly reinvigorated the genre for me, and its record-breaking first weekend at the box office shows I'm not the only one.

Jackson), an agent of a fledgling covert group called S.H.I.E.L.D. Suffice it to say, the story heats up when Carol eventually finds herself back on Earth, where her arrival, crashing through the roof of a Blockbuster Video store and finding communication gear at a RadioShack-yes, it's definitely 1995-draws the attention of the authorities, specifically Nick Fury (Samuel L. Part of the film's fun is that viewers are as much in the dark about Carol's past and what's happening between the Kree and the Skrulls as she is. I don't want to give too much of the inventive plot away. Much of the film moves back and forth in time as Carol slowly pieces together her life before she became a Kree fighter and member of Starforce, which is at war with the Skrulls, shape-shifting aliens who can disguise themselves as anyone they come in contact with. Women, right? She suffers from nightmares involving another woman (Annette Bening), and she doesn't remember her past. Her problem, as her training partner and team leader Yon-Rogg (Jude Law) tells her, is she can't control her emotions when she's in battle. The story opens when Vers, as Carol is known in the Kree capital planet of Hala, is training to become a Kree warrior.

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STARFORCE Vers (Brie Larson, center) struggles to recall her past as she's being trained as a Kree fighter to battle Skrulls, a shape-shifting alien race.

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