I thought it was entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (9 March 2019)

It's certainly not without it's flaws, but overall I was entertained throughout the movie. The story & pace was good, action & effects were good. Anti-aging on Fury was really good, Coulson looked a little synthetic to me. The humor overall I thought worked, anything cat related was hysterical. One thing I like about movies if done right is when they leave you with questions, but it has to be done well. If you leave people with questions due to lazy writing, then that isn't cool, but if you walk away pondering things, then that's usually a good thing, at least I think so
I didn't read any reviews before going to see this and honestly didn't go in with much in the way of expectations. Captain Marvel is a hero I'm not really familiar with. Lets face it she doesn't have the celebrity status as Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man & Thor. And I can't pretend to be a fan of Larson either, I only saw her in Kong which wasn't all that memorable, but mainly I'm indifferent to her as an actor
After reading reviews, overwhelmingly which are negative I think they're a little harsh, most complain about Larson being wooden, which again I can't really comment on as I really don't know her or other works, I thought she did okay but admittedly I wasn't wowed over by her either.
One concern I had going into this was all the talk about her being too powerful, which is true and a negative IMO and once she transitioned into Binary it was pretty much lights out for the bad guys. The main problem with this is I never felt like she could lose or be seriously hurt. Mainly just confined or blocked until she finally broke free, which is very different than feeling like she could actually be hurt or worse.
I must admit I was confused with the tesseract and timeline details. I didn't quite grasp how supposedly it went into the drink with Cap America in the 40's, Howard Stark recovered it shortly after, and presumably it was in his / Shield's possession until Loki snatched it in the first Avengers. So the fact that it has such a dominant role in this movie perplexed me, but I guess after enough thought it more or less works out.
All in all I thought it was entertaining, action packed & funny, which is my overall measuring stick, at least for these types of movies. Was it as memorable as Iron Man, Thor or the Avengers? No, but I put it in the same bracket as Ant Man. So maybe on the lower side when compared to the recent Marvel movies, but by no means a bad movie overall