Allright origin story movie

Rating: 7/10 (9 March 2019)

Movie itself is... fine. Brie Larson portrayal of Captain Marvel could be better - in particular movie could have been a little bit more self aware and less serious, especially in some particular scenes. This movie leaves the feeling that it's taking itself a little bit too seriously.
Not going too deep into spoilers - there is an interesting deviation from comics universe, which frankly I found interesting. After all movies don't have to follow comics letter by letter.
Overall story arc is somewhat boring, and some parts of the movie feel a little bit dragged out. Whole remembering part could be written to be more cohesive and just overall better. Main character - namesake of this move - feels too overpowered compared to her opposition and it doesn't work for the movie. There is never any tension past opening when we are demonstrated how overpowered she is. There is no real threat to Captain Marvel at any point of the movie, which I think is the reason why it's rather boring.
Finally Captain Marvel's overdone seriousness doesn't do movie any good. Other characters within this movie do much better because they allow themselves to smile and be funny here and there, which only makes sense for this movie. In context of this movie with an issue I listed just above - absence of any real threat or challenge to main character - this is vital for movie to not take itself so serious. There has to be room for character cast to break up the pretentious seriousness with a joke here and there, humorous moment, cackle or just warm human smile. This is necessary to counteract this dissonance between seriousness that most of superhero movies carry and ridiculousness of what's happening on screen - because powerful superheroes without evenly or even stronger opposition simply plowing their way through movie is anything but serious. It's absolutely clear from first minutes of the movie that any opposition here exists for the sole purpose of being humiliatingly splattered by protagonist - Captain Marvel - and that just doesn't come together nicely with overly serious acting in place. Some characters are not as guilty of this - in particular Nick Fury strikes a good balance of being serious and slipping in some humor and silliness here and there. So do some other characters.
That's why I give this movie 7/10 - it's still a solid origin story movie that has some problems here and there, but these problems are localized to certain characters (Captain Marvel herself) and specific narrative segments and how they are done (somewhat boring mid section of the film). And they are not downright horrid - it's just they could be done better with a little more effort.
Overall movie does it's job of setting up Captain Marvel for Endgame, although not particularly good job. Some questions still remain unanswered. Captain Marvel is portrayed to be ridiculously overpowered which raises question - how will she fit in avengers? Will she downright overshadow everyone? If so it doesn't feel right that barely established character will take spotlight from other members of Avengers who went through way more character development over numerous entries by now. This also threatens to turn Endgame into similar one-sided kind of movie with little to no tension. Which hopefully will not be the case and Marvel will bump Captain Marvels power level down a whole notch to create more tense and interesting narrative where Brie Larson's acting from this movie will be more appropriate due to more grim and serious nature of Infinity War with much less room for smiles and comedic relief.