In her new battle with the Skrulls, she blasts a hole through the spaceship where she’s being held and ends up crash-landing on Earth-right through the roof of a Blockbuster Video store. Vers’s main weapon is her hot-glowing fists, which issue explosive proton blasts. system called the Supreme Intelligence, where she’s placed on a pod, surrounded by blue tentacles, and mentally teleported to virtual realms in which the woman haunting her dreams (a commanding character played by Annette Bening) orders her back into battle: “Put your people’s needs before your own. (The theme is in the air-it’s also the premise of “ Alita: Battle Angel” and isn’t handled any better here than there.) She’s haunted by nightmares (urging her to “let go of the past”), but she’s also remanded by her high-handed mentor, Yon-Rogg (Jude Law), to the authorities, an A.I. Vers (pronounced “Veers”) lost her memory in the battle that also gave her superpowers she does not know who she is, and she tries to piece her identity together from disjointed recollections. Its significance is what it promises for movies to come.īrie Larson plays Vers, a warrior from the Kree, a humanoid population from a distant galaxy, centered on the planet Hala, that is in age-old war with the shape-shifting Skrulls. There are some secondary (but still significant) messages, too, but the movie itself is, for the most part, trivial. Its implicit subject is more than representation-it’s also the redistribution of power in Hollywood. The message of the film is conveyed less through the story than through its casting: women and people of color need to have starring roles in major Hollywood productions, which, at the moment, mainly mean big-budget superhero movies, the most profitable films in the industry. “Captain Marvel” is like a political commercial-it packs a worthy message, but it hardly counts as an aesthetic experience.
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