I'm just an average movie goer, never heard of Captain Marvel before

Rating: 7/10 (10 March 2019)

I was never into comics and 99% of what I know about Marvel and DC are wheat I've seen in the movies, so I am just an average movie goer. I liked the story and despite some questionable turning points and predictable "surprises"... the FX, the 90s America, the origin story...it all worked for me.
In order to come up with a fair rating, it helps to compare it to other movies. For example, there is no fair way to rate this as a 1 since I could make a movie using my phone that was 2 hours of nothing but my bare feet that could objectively be rated a 1. And some of the top rated films on IMDB like The Godfather are rated 9, and this is not that.
I think Deadpool earns an 8 rating for so much humor and originality in a superhero film, and Deadpool 2 is right up there. So Captain Marvel is a 7 to me. You could argue a 6, but anything lower than that IMO is unfair when compared to the crap movies out there with 1-5 ratings.
It's also nice to see a different kind of superhero movie, it doesn't have to be Thor or Batman or whatever. Captain Marvel carries the movie well and there are some funny parts and some great FX and some plot holes too, but at least it's something different. It deserves credit for that.