Mediocre at best

Rating: 2/10 (8 March 2019)

I went to watch this movie hoping to be proven wrong after knowing how utterly boring Captain Marvel as a character was. I wanted Brie Larson, whose acting chops has never impressed me, to succeed. I wanted the story line to be compelling and I wanted to get out of the movie theater completely seeing it in a new light.
And the movie in the end, failed to deliver.
Brie Larson's complete lack of acting skills beyond her almost dazed gaze, her forced laughter and what I could only assume to be a bad neck day every time they were shooting her scenes were laid out for all to see from the beginning til the end of the movie.
The CGI at this point, especially a studio like Disney would have been expected to be exceptional, but there were times in the movie, especially at the third act where it just looked like you were watching a B-rated movie as the obvious bad effects didn't blend so well when Danvers stepped up as Captain Marvel. A lot of her in her costume flying around were very jarring and distracting at best.
The only saving grace was Samuel L Jackson's Nick Fury and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg who pretty much stole the spotlight every time they were in the scene, with or without Brie Larson's empty gaze standing next to them. The chemistry between Nick and Marvel were completely forced that it lacked true emotions; it was basically trying to look at two people convincing other people that they got along. I will admit though that Lashana Lynch's character with Brie was good at best.
Captain Marvel's powers here also didn't make sense where in the end, she ends up, according to Feige, to be the most powerful Avenger.
By coincidence.
Not because she kept standing up when she got beaten down. Not because she was smart enough to make a suit of her own. No. She ended up becoming "a powerful avenger" by accident.
We are supposed to love this hero, to relate to them in some way but for someone who basically in the end is thought to be the most powerful avenger without any form of weakness isn't at all relatable as heroes like Steve Rogers. She barely really showed to struggle. Yes, in the beginning you'll see her hardships growing up, but that in the end didn't matter because how she became powerful was by pure accident.

Pros: -young Nick Fury and Agent Coulson
-the cat
-Carol Danvers' best friend
-Shazam trailer before the movie
-after credit scenes
Cons: -Brie Larson
-Brie Larson's bad acting
-Brie Larson's forever tilting head in basically every scene
-Brie Larson's sad attempt to be Thor/ Tony Stark
-Carol Danvers' character
-Captain Marvel's bad storyline
-questionable CGI