Have spacesuit, will travel

At this stage of the game Marvel movies should be a pillow of feathers but Captain Marvel lands with a thud. Brie Larson has Roger Moore's charm and Captain America's job: the character is a soldier and a trouper and not a complainer. She also has one of the stronger stories of the recent movies, as it should be, being from a screenplay by (deep breath) Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck and Geneva Robertson-Dworet from a story by Nicole Perlman, Meg LeFauve, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Boden and Fleck's direction however suffers from multiple perspectives: everything feels negotiated, nothing feels easy. The actors' eyes line up but their performances are from different planets. Like the digital botox on Samuel L Jackson and Clark Gregg, the workers' fingerprints are on everything. Massaging, smoothing, until there's nothing left.