Spoilers herein: good but not great

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2019)

I'll start by saying I couldn't wait for this. I've been watching and rewatching in the interim since infinity war. I think the whole reason I was enthralled to begin with was that the story telling aspect of each movie was really good. They focused on enough details to make things believable and make sense, for the most part, chronologically.
As a stand alone movie, this was petty good. It was made better having seen all the previous movies.
But then it starts to fall apart. It's like they rushed it. Dont get me wrong, they took their sweet time between movies- which was hopefully spent editing just right. But ultimately, it felt too pieced together. Major plot holes were: cap marvel not being involved in the whole thing except beginning and end, Loki stealing the tesseract mid movie and then ?, and cap single handledly returning all the stones without issue, only to age out to be sitting on the bench at just the right time, and marvel finding stark adrift randomly. Last, at least to me, having nebula be the crux of the conflict just felt wrong. I get there had to be a tie in but, using her as though she's connected to the "cloud" to force it together just feels wrong.
Producers and writers are all super dedicated, so I can't fault them here. Seems like the studios intervened to make certain things happen or cut certain elements that were undoubtedly planned but ultimately edited.
I do, and always will love the series and the heroes. The culmination of the stark story arc was so right and so terribly emotional. I half expected hulk to scream at the end there like in avengers, and he'd wake up and ask for a cheeseburger.
If you're looking for a way to tie up all the story arcs, this fell short in my opinion. What did I expect though- you can't have this a story this complex tied up nicely. I would've preferred they broke end game into two and taken their time with it. But then you have to consider the actors probably want out by now. I just wish the arcs were tied up a little cleaner. Or at least, they publish a follow up book or a comic or something to tie up the loose ends. The only last piece I can hope for is a directors cut, hopefully somewhere along the 4 hour mark in length, that does a better job. Again, realize you can't make a 4 hour movie for the masses- everyone would belly moan about having to sit that long. But, they very well could have a LOTR - style release in the future, where those of us who are truly invested in the story lines have our long awaited closure.
RDJ did this franchise, and his character, so well, I can't begin to describe. I literally cried. RIP man (stark). You the real mvp.