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In a trilogy where every single film has been poor, the expectations weren't high going in. But even with this taken into consideration, the last of the three is flat on all counts.

Crud CGI, stupid plot, poor script and Tom Hardy demonstrating why he is ridiculously overrated. If you don't think he's overrated, and even with script withstanding, watch this film and then watch RDJ or Chris Evans in their respective roles and be honest with yourself.

Some of the artistic decisions around Hardys character and acting are strange (for instance why does he walk like he's dropped a log in his boxers throughout the entire movie), but when you are so limited you can neither play drunk or sober in a film, the best bet is to dial it down a notch, which of course Hardy can't do in anything he does.

The best bit about the film is the ending and by this I mean when it ended.

If ever a show didn't live up to its own billing it was this one.

Firstly, even good roasts would begin to suffer if they were all three hours long and this was far from a good roast.

Secondly, if we all thought Kevin Hart was as funny as Kevin Hart did, it might not have felt so long but, much like the last three or four of his specials, the routine is front loaded and wanes into repetition and mediocrity.

Nicki Glazer was the stand out writing and delivery and without her contribution and the hope there would be others as good, I would have struggled to make it to the end. Even Ron Burgundy wasn't a big deal this time round.

At the end of some previous roasts, the targets end up with the audience and viewers on their side, but for me, even if he was part playing up to a character, Brady came across as unlikable.

A programme that instantly throws you into the thick of it, is probably more welcome than another origins story done badly in the comic world genre. We know the main players antagonists and protagonists (twists aside) so it can be forgiven for jumping straight in.

What doesn't slip through so easily is the evolution of the problem and why it now only is one when, basis the dating of the captain marvel origins, as far as threats go this should have been the easiest one to see or grasp.

Unfortunately there was barely enough in the first episode to get you hooked, so you are left after the first show relying purely on good faith that the hook of SLJ and his Fury will mean the story gets bigger and better. Not enough to get excited about, but just enough to tune into next weeks offering. If it doesn't deliver then, expect to see viewing figures diminish, with even the die-hard MCUers beginning to believe that GOTG3 was an outlier and the decline in quality is still ongoing.