Made to meet expectations

Rating: 7/10 (27 April 2019)

We were never going to see something radical at this stage.
it's a very entertaining move but it's not as good as Infinity War ( or Thor Ragnarok).
As the summation of a long story arc it works well enough. But there are so many characters here that it's impossible to give anyone real depth. Most appear as cameos more or less. The one thing i felt at the end was that it was over stuffed. The last battle which aims at total spectacle suffers from this surfeit of characters. There were a few occasions in the film where i felt like i had missed something. Particularly the introduction of Captain Marvel. I haven't seen the standalone so maybe i am missing a chunk. She just seemed to come out of nowhere and seemed out of place. And the Hulk stuff was off for me ( the protracted 'selfie' scene is a good example'). The treatment of the Hulk character was also a bit of a fail in the Infinity War movie imo. Thor has a beer belly and is an alcoholic? that was a fail for me. Where did that beer-belly go?
Some of the humor is a little off in places although the new 'Banner Hulk' trying to get into character in the jaunt to New York was very funny and naturalistic.
Infinity War also had a great focus on the Thanos character whereas here he gets very little time and regressed to a pretty standard comic book villain.
All that being said, there was a need to have resolution ( as i understand it) and it would have been failing if it didn't try to please as many as possible. it's a hard film to overly criticize. It's a comic book superhero movie. Just not a truly great one. As a resolution it does it's job. Oh, and the visuals are fantastic : )