Movie Review - Avengers: Endgame

If you're expecting the movie to be anything as awesome as this poster... You are sadly mistaken!

Right off the bat let me tell you I didn't like this movie!

I've been a comic/manga/action movies man all my life and after Infinity War (2018) being such an awesome experience I had some hopes this would either be the same or more of that awesomeness. Instead it was a big let down in more ways than one.

Lemme start off by saying the story is far far worse. I did not know the story of the Infinity Gauntlet in the comics but after I researched it, I really felt they were better using that than this. First of all the movie begins with the anti-climatic demise of Thanos. After the most awesome battle scene in Marvel history in Infinity War, here, they walk up to him and without provocation simply take his head clean off! Wow, now that's a way to get all our hopes down to zero for a final confrontation.

After that, five years pass. Why?! Why not?! And Ant-Man (the only true hero in this whole plot) comes up with a solution... Time travel! Yep, the laziest solution to any plot in Hollywood was used on the Avengers. The others would be: Everyone is a robot, we wake up from a dream or aliens. Aliens was already taken, dreams felt a bit lame and we already had robots in Ultron so, time travel it was!

But, as science dictates, time travel creates a paradox, if you alter past events, you either change reality or create a new one. But Marvel being Marvel, changes that completely and everyone can be in the same reality multiple times, occupying the same space. Why?! Cause they said so, that's why!

So ok, time travel and no changing reality, and never mind it's consequences either. Fine!

Moving forward, after killing Thanos, Thor is now fat! Why?! No apparent reason either than laziness and decides to live with his people in a village in Scoland. And yes, they've all forgotten about what being Asgardians looks or feel like and are all happy fisherman. This (I know) is nothing like the floating castle Thor brought back in the comics but moving on...

Hulk and Banner become one and the same! Why?! Oh, no reason. Infinity War Hulk didn't wanna fight and for some reason Banner wanted him around now that Thanos was dead anyway. Makes sense?! Of course it does. How much fight does the MOST POWERFUL AVENGER does between these two movies... hmmmm... none! Hulk doesn't fights Thanos ever and (somehow) even get's his arm broken in the process!

What's next?! Iron Man get's married and has a daughter mid movie but no actual footage of the wedding is shown. Captain, after ten years of movies, starts to miss his old girlfriend (that he actually saw die, remember?!) and in the end - to wrap this up - time travel works, they have the stones, Thanos also time travels to the future, the gang is reunited to the most fast forward rushed, battle scene ever that lasts the last 20 minutes of the film and the movie ends with Ironman dying!

What's not to love about this?!

Oh, Captain time travels again (yeah I know) to put back the stones - yes, even the soul stone that someone died to get and we have no idea how that worked - and stays in the past to grow old with his beloved girlfriend. Only to witness the entire Avengers and Captain America movies content from home, drinking coffee,  not taking any actions on any of them!

So... No Adam Warlock (The being that actually ends up with the Stones in the comics). No Nemesis (The "creator" of the Infinity Stones). No battle build up. No full team effort agains Thanos in the End. No Super Evolved Final Form Thanos against the Avengers. No Wolverine. No Deadpool. No sense. No movie basically!

This was - to me - by far, the worst Avengers and the biggest disappointment in a Marvel super hero movie ever!

To put this in perspective, Akira (1988) - the comic and the movie - had a ton of intakes where we'd see a character like a ghost figure interacting with the protagonists mid-narrative, not explaining why. Only at the end of the comic did we found out that, through telekinesis, they'd all been teleported to the past to give warning of future dangers. Cool right!? If the same had been done here I'd be a lot more pleased or if they used the Multiverse theory already introduced in the animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and again on the live action Spiderman: Far From Home (2019).

This was just lazy, bad written, no action and not fun movie. For this to be the end movie of ten years of awesomeness is just degrading, incomprehensible and down right awful!

A two out of five!