Meh

Rating: 2/10 (7 March 2019)

All fluff - no substance.
This movie is more like a cinematic "Mad Libs" fill in the blank formula that tries and elevates a C-Level character to the pinnacle of prominence.
For one, the 1st female Captain Marvel was Monica Rambeau who was a black female. Carol Danvers was originally Ms Marvel and did not start being represented as Captain Marvel until 2012. For any comic book reader or fans who understand the history, this is frustrating. I had similar problems with "Girl in the Spider's Web" for similar re-invention of history that completely erased part of Lisbeth's back story of burning her father. I understand why they did there more than what Marvel did here.
What is clear for anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the source material is that Marvel just picked a character for the name and gender and then tried to reinvent and elevate the material to make them out to be more than who they were. This is apparent in the film which so many of the arcs are ex-machina instead of seeing the development and growth of the character (without spoilers, the ending is demonstrative of this and impossible to defend otherwise)
This is out of the norm for Marvel, which has in the past shown the growth of the heroes as they adapt to their powers
I cannot tell if the directing of the film was awful or is it the bland cardboard emotion of Brie Larson - is her character so poorly portrayed because that was what the director wanted or was she unable to add life to the character. The sense that she is trying to be a "female" Tony Stark is apparent, and if you go into the movie with that all you see if Brie Larson doing a Robert Downey impression kinda stick which is annoying.
Elements of the movie that try to "exude" her confidence are also misplaced. When at a key moment she gleefully shouts "Yahoo!" you can feel the audience pause in a moment of "really???"
Visually it is an appealing, and Samuel Jackson and some of the Nick Fury backstory is entertaining, but at the core, the character is not-likeable, the story pieced together and falls short of, and embarrassed to say, but DC did a far far better job with a complete film like Wonder Woman than Marvel did with this movie. Wonder Woman did have its own problem with its 3rd Act and a kind of bait and switch of villains, but for a cinematic experience, this felt more like a rushed Netflix series that could not quite decide what it was - Not enough for ten episodes, and a jumbled mess to get it to two hours.
At the core, the movie tries to be something it is not. Wait for the Blu-Ray or streaming, maybe like Batman v Superman a half an hour of extra material can give it more depth, but as a whole, was painful at times to get to the end