Of all of the movies, this is one of them

Rating: 4/10 (11 March 2019)

Let me preface this by saying that anyone who says that the movie is liberal/feminist propaganda is deluding themselves, and there's nothing in this movie that's even worth getting angry over. At Best it's a completely average superhero flick and at worst it's a poorly written and shot but overall inoffensive action movie
NON-SPOILER SECTION:
The acting is fine, Brie Larson does an alright job throughout, and Sam Jackson puts in a genuinely good performance as a younger version of Fury (side-note, the de-aging effect and makeup they use to make him look like Jackson actually did in the 90s is scarily good) The two have more than a few fun interactions that usually have a few ways to play off of the mid-90s setting. Ben Mendelsohn also puts in a very entertaining performance, albeit not a particularly compelling one. The issue is the writing, in a word, it's terrible, in another word, it's absolutely terrible. The script has no idea what type of character Carol Danvers is, is she stoic and paranoid about who she can trust? is she sarcastic and snarky? the answer to both is "yes" despite the fact that you'd think they'd contradict each other, the main character needs to have at the very least consistent characterization to be compelling but for me the movie completely failed on that part. Another issue with the writing for Carol is that coming out of the movie I had no idea what motivated her? why is she a hero? obviously she saves people by the end of the movie but the movie never gives her a reason to besides "she wants to." Tony Stark fights injustice out of guilt because he developed weapons that got into the wrong hands, and he wants to atone for the deaths he inadvertently caused, Steve Rogers joined the fight in WWII because he saw people he knew fighting and dying, as he explains in CA1, he doesn't like bullies, and just wants to stop them, and then there's Peter Parker, I doubt that I have to explain why he fights crime. These are just three examples of movies doing a much better job explaining why their heroes do what they do, Captain Marvel never gives and explanation like that, we never know her motivations which is ironic given that the whole movie is about her learning who she is, they had a golden opportunity to explain why she puts herself in harms way to save people and they decided for some reason not to use it.
The next issue I have is that the editing, which is atrocious, it's a generally well shot movie with some decent choreography but it's edited about as poorly as Bohemian Rhapsody. I could barely ever tell what was happening because there was a ridiculous amount of quick cuts, people criticize Black Panther's ending fights because of their terrible CGI but at least they were all competently edited, at least even if it didn't look great I could still tell what was going on.
Overall it wasn't good, and I didn't enjoy it very much at all, but it had various aspects and alight redeeming qualities such as decent acting and interesting shot composition that saved it from being the worst MCU movie despite the fact that I would definitely put it near the bottom.
SPOILER SECTION:
this section is going to be a bit scattered as it's just various thoughts that I had that are more detailed and couldn't fit into the non-spoiler section
Alright so the "twist" is terrible for more than a few reasons. The first issue with the twist is that anyone who's seen all of the MCU movies, or even just the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, or any of Agents of Shield S5 recently will already know that the Kree are bad guys. Yon-Rogg (who is a horrible villain with no motivations, especially coming off of the back of Thanos and Killmonger) the main villain from the first GotG, Ronan, on call and asks him for help, Yon-Rogg also has a member of Ronan's crew (from GotG vol. 1) as a member of his team, whenever they showed up I was waiting for the moment where it would be revealed that the Kree were the villains and when it was revealed I was surprised not because the twist was good but because I didn't think that they'd go the most obvious route. I think that having Skrulls as victims worked perfectly fine in this movie, but I'm somewhat annoyed that they wasted a concept as interesting as the Skrulls on a movie as uninteresting as this one. The only reason that this is in the spoiler section is because I'm 90% sure that it was supposed to be surprising.
The scene where Captain Marvel fights her former team should have been a big emotional moment, they've been the only friends or family that she's had for upwards of 6 years and should've had some sort of emotional attachment to them even if it was based on a lie. Instead of this they play an upbeat song and have Captain Marvel cracking jokes the entire time, I hate to compare it to other MCU movies again but in Civil War at the end when Captain America was fighting off Iron Man to try to save Bucky, there weren't any jokes being said and the music was appropriate.
This movie makes it look like Nick Fury is either hilariously stupid/incompetent, or a irredeemable asshole. In Avengers 1 Black Widow talks to Hawkeye saying that alien invasions and gods weren't part of their training, but like, why wasn't it? if Captain Marvel is supposedly (according to pre-release press statements from Kevin Feige) the strongest superhero in the MCU then Nick Fury should have trained SHIELD knowing that there were possibly other beings as powerful as her out in the universe, instead he... just sort of didn't.
anyway, I'm done talking about this movie since quite frankly I don't want to spend any more time thinking about it a movie I didn't enjoy, based off of the reviews you either wrote my review off immediately or thought I was preaching the truth, I doubt I changed anyone's mind but I don't understand how people are saying the movie is great.