Woah.

Rating: 10/10 (4 February 2020)

A 3H BEHEMOTH of a finale to a truly unique phenomenon in cinema: a legacy, a build-up, even, of 21 movies over 11 years into this moment. While the movie does reward knowing all the characters, only the main bunch have to be known, and it's obviously best if you've seen Infinity War, since it is the ending of that movie that directly leads into this one, like one big two-parter movie. Heck, it was even shot back-to-back. The two movies combined stand just shy of 5h45", which is an insane time.
At the time of writing, there are a total of 23 movies, with close to a dozen announced for the near future. The 23 movies, up to SM: Far From Home would take over 41 hours to watch!
Back the Endgame. It is a heart-wrenching movie, as the characters we have grown to love reach the end of their arcs, and sometimes lives; jam-packed with action and humour (except for the cringy Fortnite reference. Damn you MarvelxEpicGames!! Also Hulk dab was cringy but it was also funny, and kinda made sense? But the fortnite thing really taints the movie. Even if Thor swearing at some internet lowlife is funny, and shows just how low he has gone, from fighting literal Gods to... Noobmaster69. Fat Thor was hilarious, as well as being a nice body message ("I'm still worthy!"), although it is my headcanon that the end fight would have been much easier had Thor been his good old buff self. Sure, beer belly is fine, and those who matter will love you for it, but it still doesn't beat abs my dude.
[EDIT: I've thought about it for a while, and also heard other people's opinions, who take it much harsher than I do, but fat Thor was funny and all... But I sincerely hope they revert back to buff Thor again, because it's just better].
It takes an interesting take on time travel, which is a scary topic in a lot of movies, and handles it surprisingly really well! That being said, the movie feels very geared towards us young'uns who grew up watching the movies. My dad, an avid cinema watcher, who does enjoy a lot of the movies in the MCU (although he didn't enjoy GotG, so take that as you will, to understand his different tastes), would probably have some trouble keeping up as everything happens very quickly. That being said, I love how the movie slows down for nobody, the music is another masterpiece in the series, thank you Alan Silvestri (note to Danny Elfman for doing Age of Ultron's music). The cinematography is stunning, the special effects are nothing short of otherworldly, and Captain Marvel has less screen time than Black Widow's PB sandwich, so that's nice (because seriously, that woman is nasty off camera, and a lame addition on camera. I hate superman for the same reasons. Too strong, always the same cryptonite bs. It's a deus ex machina. They made her so powerful she just has to be "absent", "saving other planets" because Thanos surely isn't a big enough priority. Big Lame.).
Of course, it's also notably the first movie to ever overtake J. Cameron's Avatar, (the one which nobody really remembers cause it was so darn generic), and therefore taking the number one highest grossing film (of course, not adjusted for inflation, or Disney's hard push for this including a rerelease with 'extra footage'). Back on topic, while definitely one of the most emotionally charged movies in cinema as far as I'm concerned, it does have a very long legacy to build this up. Consequently, it's hard for me to determine this movie's standalone value. Is it fair to exclude it from its context? I think at least a link to IW needs to be made, since they're two parts of the same movie, really. In any case, the crown jewel in Marvel's crown.