This movie is my least favorite Marvel movie to date.

Rating: 5/10 (29 April 2019)

I wanted this movie to be good, no great. But it just wasn't. Plot holes galore, needless scenes, and terrible pacing riddle this movie like buckshot. I so wanted this movie to be good that I went back to see it again. And as I sit here with my Captain America t shirt still on from the night before, I feel the need to vent some honest nerd rage.
First and foremost, time travel is the biggest, dumbest McGuffin (a tool you use to forward the plot) ever. For one thing it's tricky, you don't want paradoxes and you to mess with the time stream continuem. But they did. The movie opens with Thanos, who is at this point the most powerful, knowledgeable person in exsistence. So he destroys the stones so no one can undo what he's done. Well, if you had all the infinity stones you would be aware of multiple timelines and universes and destroying the gems in this timeline is utterly futile. And while we are taking about Thanos, he is way more one dimensional and dumbed down than he was in "Infinity War".
Secondly, time travel!! Captain America goes back and encounters his past self. Past Cap says that it's Loki but when their shields collide, Past Cap should realize something is afoot. If it was Loki, the illusion should have shattered, yet both shields rebound after impact and fall into the abyss. When did Future Cap get his shield back and if he didn't, wouldn't we have a Past Cap moving forward with 2 shields. Again, time travel is a tricky thing.
Thirdly, didn't Doctor Strange have the time stone the entire time?! He could have went back and changed any number of possibilities. I suppose by oath he was barred from using it even if it meant saving half the universe.
I'm going to stop counting at this point.
But hey, don't give the gauntlet to the only god you have on the team because he's been drinking for five years. No give it to Robert Downy Jr. because he's tired of being Iron Man and that makes sense. Also, how many times do you need to snap the gauntlet?! One to bring everyone back and another to dust Thanos? Why couldn't have been one snap? (Answer: contract negotiations)
Did the Hulk smash anything other than keys on a keyboard?
And finally, no after credit anything????? I mean, if you count your average comic book fan, at matinee prices we spent on average $220 just to see this in theatres, not including dvds, blu rays, and other merch. The very least you could've done was a thank you for watching or in the infamous words of Stan Lee "Nuff said".