Saw this on Saturday.
It is a 7 out of 10. It was a good movie and it entertained. I'll put everything in spoilers.
Spoiler:
Fury's character was made into too much of a cheesy comedy type for my tastes. Fury is supposed to be a strategic badass as well as a spec-ops super secret spy dude. He worked for Shield. But wasn't that great...so what gives?Anyway, the beginning of the movie and the disjointed timeline and "lost memories" trope really harmed the narrative as it unfolded. People never learn in Hollywood. After the terrible timeline issues in Alexander, you'd think they'd learn to stop with this trope.
Also, it did get a bit Social Justice Warrior with a strong woman who don't need no man a few times. It was rather irritating as it detracts from character motivations, IMO. They could have cut out the gender-specific criticisms and, instead, focused on just her failing over and over. Would have seemed more realistic and provide a better motivation for her wanting to prove the haters wrong. But that plotline seems rather abandoned at times, too...as if it was just sewed into the story.
Why does it have to be about her gender at all? Why can't she just be a hero instead of a female hero who overcomes sexism? It's now about how a strong woman can overcome sexism instead of a strong hero overcoming intergalactic enemies. Lame, man. That brings her down. Makes her less. Don't do that. Women are so much more than just their gender and overcoming workplace discrimination. Stop making women "conquerors of office politics" and make woman heroes plain heroes for heroics' sake.
Anyway, movie felt a bit forced. But has some amazing visuals, sound. Fight sequences are absolutely terrible at times. It does the super zoom up close to where you can't really see what's going on. Jackie Chan has spoken about this "Western" action movie fighting style and it's because the fight sequences suck so badly that they have to do super up close zooms and rapid cuts so it doesn't look as lame as it really is (like Power Rangers fighting fodder).
Also, Ronan is supposed to be a badass dude but he was just a Worf. Why couldn't they make him more badass than he was portrayed? Why do they have to just Worf him? He could have brought the hammer (pun intended) and killed some apostates or something. They had really great opportunity to setup Ronan as a apocalyptic badguy and THEN have the main character defeat him...but they didn't.