Mary Sue and poor writing

Rating: 3/10 (8 March 2019)

I wanted to love this movie. I really did. But it falls utterly short of the MCU's usual standards. Poor writing and acting for Captain Marvel herself (where is the real character development? What motivates her? Why does she put so much emotion into her snark and so little into her lines of actual importance?) leave me unimpressed and very worried for Phase 4 and beyond. This could easily be a bigger disaster than the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
Also it continues the trend of everything being a joke, although I chalk that up to current trends and not the movie itself.
Also, without getting into spoilers, some recurring characters felt far too funny and goofy and lacked the serious tone we've seen before.
In short I'm not impressed, and I'm very worried that Captain Marvel is going to go in and magically fix everything in Endgame because she's supposed to.
Being powerful alone does not make a good protagonist.
My 3/10 rating may be slightly harsh, but I'm judging it by MCU standards. The same studio that brought us Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther, and Infinity War. Were it by anyone else I may feel inclined to give it a 4 or 5 out of 10, but this is Marvel Studios, and I know what they're capable of, and this isn't it.
Shoutout to the film for the beautiful intro though.