OK, listen up all you people rating this as 1-star

Rating: 8/10 (10 June 2019)

You've either got an axe to grind that has nothing to do with the film itself, or you're woefully ignorant of film-making and film history. Either way, you need to face some facts.
First - just so you know where I'm coming from I am a 53-year old, retired, disabled, Air Force officer, and I'm a guy. I'm also a big Marvel comics and film fan and I thoroughly enjoyed Captain Marvel. Is it a perfect film? Absolutely not (more on that later), but is it a 1-star film, or even a 5-star film? No way! "Ishtar" is a 1-star film. "Plan Nine from Outer Space" (or any other Ed Wood Jr. production) is a 1-star film. Captain Marvel is a 7-star film at worst and I've erred on the high side to help make up for all these ridiculous 1-star ratings. I'll address the main complaints that people have given for these low ratings and then I'll cover what I think really are the weak points of the film.
"The acting is terrible!" Come on now, if you think this is terrible acting, you've never seen actual terrible acting. I know this is subjective, but there are some reference marks we can probably all agree on. Go to your average high school play - that's terrible acting. Watch any Ed Wood Jr. film - that's horrible acting. But Captain Marvel has reasonably good acting that fits the characters quite well, in my opinion. Is Vers stiff and wooden at first? Of course she is. She's been abducted by aliens and brainwashed and told consistently to squelch her emotions. Brie Larson captures this well, IMO. Later on in the film, she loosens up and has several emotional moments that I thought were quite effectively portrayed - especially in her interactions with the Rambeau family.
"She's not humble!" Right - this is a standard to which we hold super heroes now? "(fill in the blank) would be such a great super hero if he was just more humble," said nobody, ever, about any male super hero character. Is Thor humble? Is Iron Man\Tony Stark humble? Is Hulk humble? There are a few humble A-list male super heroes, but they're the exception rather than the rule: Captain America, Dr. Strange, Spider Man and, um... That's all I can think of. The point is, there are several notably non-humble male super heroes and this has never been a problem for anyone that I'm aware of. Let's think about this character for a minute and see if this non-humble attitude is appropriate or not: Carol Danvers is a USAF Academy cadet, which is one of the most selective schools in the nation (I taught chemistry there for 10 years, so I know what I'm talking about), and EVERYONE knows this (factors into the next point). Cadets are fed a constant diet of "you're the best of the best", and with good reason. These people are the top of their class, straight-A students, often national-class (if not world-class) athletes, socially active in things like Civil Air Patrol, Search and Rescue and other public services. If they weren't, they would never be one of the 1000 per year students who are selected to attend USAFA. Then, she becomes a test pilot. This means she was among the top 1% of all the pilots in the Air Force in terms of capability and skill. And not just any test pilot, but a pilot for a highly classified program, which puts her in an even higher class of excellence. Now, you can't go through that kind of selection process and training without being, regardless of gender, kind of a jerk. (Q: What happens when you give a fighter pilot Viagra? A: He gets taller.) And I say this with all due respect to my pilot friends. But, like Brie Larson portrays her, and like most of the pilots I've known, Carol Danvers isn't an a-hole, but a humorous, sarcastic, irreverent and highly educated and capable person. So, IMO, it is entirely appropriate for Carol Danvers to be a relatively emotionless, non-humble person at the start of the film. Later, she's brainwashed to believe that she's a force for good in the Universe, and even later, she discovers that she's one of the most powerful beings in the universe. Hmm, does that call for humility? Maybe - but how many people with that background would be humble, at least initially?
"There's no character\plot development!" Umm, if you don't see character and plot development then you must need a film that has all the subtlety of a jackhammer on the forehead. I thought the character development was told remarkably efficiently through the effective use of flashbacks. If you're paying attention, you easily pick up on Carol's rough childhood, her grit and determination, her friendship with Maria, her talent and capability as a pilot, etc. What more do you want? I mean, everyone I've ever talked to about the USAF Academy instantly knows that the students there are the top high school graduates in the country, even if they know nothing else about the school. That alone tells you a tremendous amount about the character, much less all the vignettes of her getting knocked down and getting back up again. I found this to be enjoyable and inspiring. And the plot? Even though it was a bit predictable, I thought they did a fine job of showing the hypocrisy of the Kree and the predicament of the desperate Skrulls (helped along by some fantastic acting by Ben Mendelsohn.
"She doesn't fight a Big-Bad!" Uhhh, so what? She fights off an invading fleet of Accuser warships. She stands up to her brainwashing captors and helps the people she had been trained to think of as enemies. Are you so unimaginative and dead inside that you need some major monster battle to tell you when the climax of the film has arrived?
Last one: "It's a feminist attack on (white) manhood!" If you think it's an attack on white males, then you need to pull your head out of your hidden agenda. The Kree (who are the closest things to "bad guys" are an amazingly diverse group in the film, containing males, females, and several different ethnic groups (so does Kree = United States? Hmmm...) so when their hypocrisy is revealed, how can you think it's a direct slap at white males, unless you are blinded by your own prejudices? And at least two major "good guy" characters are either actually white males (Phil Coulson) or prefer to be seen as a blue-eyed white male (Talos). Bottom line: If you think this film is an attack on manhood, then you're pretty insecure in your manhood.
What are my complaints about the film? I do have a few:

(speaking of the dead Skrull) "Whatever he runs on, it's not on the periodic table." The only elements NOT on the periodic table are undiscovered super-heavy elements that no life form would develop a dependence on due to scarcity, among other reasons. This is a stupid and lazy comment and they should have had a science advisor on staff.
Adapting an air-breathing aircraft to fly into low earth orbit. If the Skrull are technologically advanced enough to do this, they shouldn't have needed to send Mar Vell to Earth to develop a light-speed engine. Anyway, Pegasus had at least one single-stage-to-orbit vehicle, so they probably had more. Blasting in and stealing it would have made a lot more sense. Again, a science advisor would have been a big help on these kinds of details.
Several of the fight scenes could have been better choreographed and more interesting.
Why didn't the Kree just shoot Goose? I'm glad they didn't but that just doesn't make any sense. Especially when the Flerkin deployed its tentacles? I mean, it wasn't super fast, but they just stood there and let themselves be grabbed. Maybe the Flerkin can absorb energy bursts from weapons or something, but they should have at least attempted to fight or even run away.

That's about it. Overall, I found Captain Marvel to be an enjoyable and inspiring film and a good introduction of a great MCU character. And now there's talk of a follow-on Ms. Marvel film - cue the Muslim-haters!