What do you get when you combine a fringe plot thread from a weak film to begin with, with a storyline that no one cares about, add a bit of immigration woke messaging, and a superhero genre film with no superheroes? You get the pathetic train wreck that is Secret Invasion.
What follows is spoiler-filled because I took the bullet for you, I watched this steaming pile of donkey-dung.
Disney touted this as a spy thriller. It isn’t. A good MCU spy film is The Winter Soldier. It managed the tightrope between superhero film and a deep espionage spy story. I’m not sure what this film is. There are so many weird things just plain wrong with this that I finished the series and was actually thankful there were no post credit scenes.
This isn’t about superhero fatigue because there are no superheroes in this series. It’s all about the Skrulls, you know, from Captain Marvel? You didn’t see Captain Marvel? Well, don’t. They are shapeshifters and have secretly taken over the lives of a million or so humans.
Now they want to ignite WWIII so they can have Earth to themselves. Hold that thought for a few paragraphs.
Fury finds out about this threat to the entire planet, but doesn’t tell any of the Avengers other than Rhodey (WarMachine) who, surprise, surprise, has been replaced by a Skrull. Fury insists he has to deal with this himself, which is, well, just idiotic. “I started this, I have to finish it.” Dude, you are just Nick Fury. Dial a friend—make this interesting.
Fury goes it alone and along the way, some secondary characters are killed off, just because the writer’s were so lame they thought that would have shock value with the viewers. It didn’t. Their deaths were so wasted, so pointless, so dull, that I didn’t care. If you don’t have their deaths be integral, meaningful, or respectful to the fan base, then you are just lopping off heads.
One thing that pissed me off was that Fury has grave sites all over the world (conveniently) that are filled with things he might need. In one burial vault he got an eye patch, his coat, a handgun and one magazine. One, remember him burning a whole storage unit of ID’s, money and equipment at the end of Winter Soldier?
Well, that was just one stash apparently, and the only one with a lot of good stuff. Seriously, you’d spend millions to hide an eyepatch? This was another example of the writers taking a long steady piss on the intelligence of the fan community.
There are numerous other plot holes in this film deeper than a post-winter Michigan pothole (which are nearly bottomless). To me, the biggest was that if the bad-guy Skrulls had succeeded, Earth would have been laid waste in a global thermonuclear war. “Yeah, we tricked the humans into killing themselves so we can rule the wastelands!”
Why not simply replace the US President and Russian President? It would have been easy to skip all of the faux build up in the plot—as if this production had a plot to begin with. This was more of, “We need a vehicle for Samuel L. Jackson’s character, so let’s do Secret Invasion.” Seriously, they spent $212 million on this series. If I was a Disney shareholder, I’d want heads to roll.
There was a bright spot or two. Mostly Oliva Colman’s character of Sonya Falsworth. Watching her torture people and be polite and happy about it actually made me smile. The counterbalance to this is the details of Fury’s love life, which no one is interested in.
It is clear that the producers wanted this to be about immigrant refugees. They wanted a narrative that said while some were bad, most were great people. Those of us that watch these series are not looking for deep political ideology to be shoved in our faces.
We want entertainment. Give us some great characters and some decent plots, and we will watch it. Hell, we’ll love it.
I should have known it would suck when Disney started spinning the yarn about the low viewership being due to “superhero movie fatigue.” There is a tiny bit of that. I mean seriously, how many big fight scenes can you produce that we will be awed with at this point?
Overall though, superhero movie fatigue is a lie, perpetuated to blame the viewers for the production team’s failure. Why? Because blaming the fan base is easier than doing your job and doing it well. You have decades of great storylines to choose from. All you have to do is be respectful of your fans, not fault them for your failures.
This wasn’t She-Hulk bad, but it is close. Having endured each episode of this, I found myself wondering if the Writer’s Guild of America really does deserve more money…and that is a pretty sad state of affairs coming from a fellow writer.
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