Not fantastic, but not awful either

Rating: 3/10 (10 March 2019)

First off, I'm not a comic geek. I don't know the back story for Captain Marvel. I just love movies and I have enjoyed a lot of the Marvel Movies, some more than others.
This one wasn't awful. It had pizzaz & flash, it had humor, it had plot twists and surprises. It had familiar faces and some cool 90's tunes.
What I didn't care for. I really tried to like the main character, but Brie Larson was just too wooden at times. I liked her humor at times, and I know a recurring theme was for her to control her emotions, but she came across as flat a lot of the times. She was pretty good at expressing anger and frustration, but there just wasn't much heart. Her affect was robotic almost. This may be intentional, maybe has some aspect of the character that she was adhereing to, but it was hard to like or care about her sometimes.
Also, in the end, when she comes into her real powers. Well that was both great and extremely tiresome all at once. Great that she finally comes into her super powers. However, they seem unlimited and SUPER superpowers. I mean she flies thru space, she stops a bunch of warheads/missles, she blows up a space ship --
yet, apparently she totally sucks at hand-to-hand combat despite her super slamming fire hands et al. The sequence where she fights her old team members is just way too long and dumb. She blasts peeps left and right, but they don't stay down, they don't die, they don't even seem to be injured or rattled. They just bounce back up for more. She blasts her former mentor over and over and over again and who knew? Jude Law doesn't die or even get a scratch. It was just kind of stupid. Her hands/ her powers....they seem unbeatable at one point and totally bland at another.
That was the biggest mistake of the movie. She can't be both super powerful and able to tow spaceships thru space all on her own and yet can't take down a opponent in simple hand to hand combat.
It was a fun popcorn movie, but it's no Winter Soldier.