so just my 2cents.
story/plot: ok, nothing amazing, fine for a modern updating the jumbled mishmash of the classic comic and various reboots.
(i kinda dislike the depowering of most of the cosmic races in the mcu.) they could have gone with a more traditional version of the Kree that would have added some depth to the interstellar politics in the mcu.
acting/casting: good performances, nobody does anything bad, but nothing that will stick in your mind later.
Larson is good, Jackson didnt bring his A game, but there weren't that many scenes to really go big on. the fury + danvers back and forth is probably the best of the dialogue bits but they needed more scenes in order to flesh out the relationship. all the supporting roles are fine, but the villains could have used a bit more development (this is partially due to time constraint and the semi-big plot twist.) i would like to see the cut scenes, as i suspect the theatrical edit really hurt this one.
music/sound: fine, but they tried really hard to shoehorn some of the 90's era songs into having some sort of thematic relevance.
[i follow the Countdown to Infinity podcast and one of their observations was pretty on point about missed opportunites: could have had the fight scene music cued with the jukebox hit and it would have been diegetic]
VFX/practicalFX: beginning and middle stuff is good, the final battle stuff was a bit cringeworthy(i used to work in features vfx).
this feels like a 2nd tier FX house job, the cg human was off model, the choreography and camerawork was forgettable, the lighting wasn't helping, and all i could think of as i was watching was this was like something we would have seen 15 years ago. her photon blasts vfx were about as uninspired as you can get. the quad jet fight scene had more drama and intensity and was way more compelling than the space stuff. [shows that go thru revisions and change of creative lead generally suffer in the end sequences. the lead up time required for good cg typically gets eaten away whenever a new creative team comes onboard. decisions need to be made early to get the level of polish needed for modern expectations. see scorpion king in the 2nd brendan frasier mummy movie for what happens when you give a good fx house not enough time]
general take: this was a kind of shallow slice at an origin, with most of the decisions falling to the god of "give me a popcorn movie" explosions and punches.
with the identity issues they could have done a more personal, taut, and gripping story about who you are and who you choose to be. treating it as a war story with soldiers doing questionable things could have added a lot more weight to the things that happened. the mcu movie aliens tend to lack any actual foreign quality, and the aliens just naturally slots in with a ton of familiarity with earth culture and sense of humor(except for Drax).
this movie went through a ton of rewrites and creative leads, and it shows. the end product is fine and fits in with the rest of the marvel movies, but they could have done more.
did i enjoy it?: i enjoyed enough of it.
should you watch it?: yes. maybe on cable, online, or borrow a friend's disc.
is it a good movie?: B- overall, B+ to A- in some of the parts.