Mostly HYPE that does not deliver

Rating: 5/10 (28 August 2019)

Text: This film does not live up to the hype. I was very much looking forward to being 'blown away' by this movie, like everyone said; like everyone was talking about. Instead it was not, IMHO, as good as the one about the Infinity Stones or even Ragnorak (or some of the others). It certainly was a poor sequel to the Infinity Stones one. Stellar special affects are taken for granted these days; of course the special effects will be state of the art. They have all our money and hundreds of computer wiz folks to pull that off without much of a battle at all. They've pretty much mastered all that. The story: well, that's something else. Considering what Gamora went through with her bad dad, that point wasn't developed and picked up on very well (or very much) at all. She was hardly IN the movie! Her sister was in it more than she was! To see Thor turn into a fat slob having trouble with his cable TV; very funny (not). Lots of the so-called jokes were shopworn and odiously familiar. Some heroes were featured much more than others. Groot gets ONE line?! Of course that's 'always' the case -- but certainly not much Groot here for Groot fans. I'd like to see a movie that features Groot! I guess check out the G of the G movies for that. What Thanos was able to do with the Stones the others did not -- could not. Why not? The film should've been called "Iron Man Dies". It was essentially Iron Man and Helpers -- an Iron Man movie. He was the central focus. I don't remember Carol Danvers from the previous films. She seemed like the baddest of the bad. I'm not sure the merging of Bruce with Hulk was all that effective. 'What' did that really add to the story? Did I much care? No. Once Banner gets the Time Stone from the Ancient One, why can't *that* fix a bunch of stuff? That's how Thanos was able to kill (and mess with) some folks in a prior movie. The whole ordeal with Romanoff provoked no emotion; It's like 'so what?' At some point the whole thing becomes like, "So what? Ho-humm."
It seems like *all* of the previously disintegrated were not re-integrated by Banner. What about the guy who had one of the Stones living in his forehead? Dr. Strange shows up at the end. Not much screen time for him 'this' time. The Guardians of the Galaxy get very little screen time and pretty much zero lines except the stupid back and forth at the end with Thor. The big ending was, once again, not that big. It's about what you'd expect, not the "Wow, best movie ever!" hype I've been hearing for months.
You could say Downey Jr and ScarJo were ready to retire their roles, "Hey, I'm done with this!" They are gone; or are they? Ya just never know. They could of course do 40 prequels and bring 'em back just one more time; one more time. For as long as people keep lining up with open wallets. Yawn. The very very very end (there's more than one ending to this three hour bash); another snooze.
That's what I get for listening to, and believing the *hype*; very seldom does reality live up to the hype. So, now, I wish "I" could go back in time and just 'rent' the dang thing instead of 'buying/owning' it. When will I watch it again? Next time I have trouble sleeping and want something mediocre to bore me.