It's entertaining, but...

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2019)

Honestly... Time travel. It just feels lazy, and it leaves a lot of holes and questions. I'm not like a die hard mcu fan, but I've seen almost all of the movies leading up to this one (I think antman and wasp and captain marvel are the only ones I skipped) and I felt like this was mostly a letdown, but if I had been anticipating this movie as much as I know millions of people have been, I probably would have felt almost insulted.
They spend way too much time setting up the counter attack, and then the big plan is... Wait for it... We'll just go back in time and stop it before it starts! Not exactly original, or even creative... As I said before, it seems really lazy. Not to mention the myriad of questions your left with due to the paradox of time travel... For instance... If they retrieve all the stones before Thanos gets them, then how is everyone still missing when they get back to the present? If Thanos never gets the stones, then there's no snap, therefore no one is missing, vision never dies etc... It's just lazy writing for a fan base that has handed billions of dollars to Marvel for these movies.
What did I like? Not that anyone cares, but I am a Captain America fan... So the scene with Cap wielding Mjolnir was awesome! In fact that whole scene with Thanos vs. Cap, Thor, and Stark was by far the best scene in the entire mcu catalog IMO. I could have watched that for a lot longer.
Beyond that... Thor as a bum was silly, but also funny. Stark was incredible. The Hulk was underwhelming. Hawkeye and widow were okay.
I know a lot of other people were upset about the lack of screen time for all the other characters, but I'll forgive this point, because it is an AVENGERS movie... And the original 6 avengers were the being highlighted, which is completely understandable. Although ant man, rocket, Warhammer, and nebula also had significant roles, but again... I didn't really mind the attention paid to the core 6 players. (then again, I am a Cap fan, so maybe that had something to do with it).
Also, why even have a Captain Marvel movie release right before endgame, then introduce her in the movie, just to have her absent for 95% of the movie?
And how was Thanos so strong without the stones? Seems to me he almost didn't even need them with the way he was destroying everyone without them. Thor nearly kills him with the stones, but in this movie Thanos can pound Thor with Mjolnir and stormbreaker, plus Cap and Iron man... Cmon... It's little things like that, that are just annoying.
Overall it was meh, with one outstanding scene.