ENDGAME: OR AN AFTERTHOUGHT?

Rating: 6/10 (4 May 2019)

Do two wrongs make a right? Well, the makers of this film and Marvel studios appear to think so. After realising the folly of one blockbuster, the correction is attempted by doing another.
Avenger: Infinity War and its sequel Endgame, are said to have been made 'back to back' and that means it's not an accident in film making. For those who have NOT seen Infinity, it is made clear in the initial sequences of Endgame that 'half of the life across the universe' had recently been disintegrated by Thanos (played convincingly by Josh Brolin ) and his men, using the power gained from the Infinity Stones ( Time, Mind, Space, Power, Soul and Reality).
Tony Stark (Iron Man, played wearily by Robert Browney Jr.) and Nebula (Thanos's step daughter, played passionately by Karen Gilan) fighting the war are saved narrowly from verge of death by Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel played by a marble faced Brie Larson). Steve Rogers (Captain America, played by an unsure Chris Evans), Natasha (Black Widow, played by an emotional Scarlett Johansson) and Nebula fail to entice Stark (who prefers a retired life with his family) to get into action in order to retrieve the stones, and the world. But they manage to recruit Bruce Banner (Hulk played by a committed Mark Ruffalo), Thor (played by a beer-bellied Chris Helmsworth, coz his character now drinks a lot of beer) and James Rhodes (War Machine, played by a straight forward Don Cheadle) and together they go in search of Thanos to retrieve the Stones. Thanos declares that he has destroyed the stones soon after they served the purpose of destruction. Was Thanos lying? No. (Nebula: my dad may be whatever, a liar he is not). In a fit of rage, Thanos' head is chopped off by Thor.
When everything seems lost, Scott Lang (Ant-Man played comically by Paul Rudd ) arrives on the scene - just recovered from a time warp that he underwent - for him the past five years he spent in the quantum realm seemed like just five hours. So it's hypothesised that if you could somehow get into the warp, you can reach different points in time in the past, in order to reverse or avert the damages done at that time and return to the present. (Obviously, a concoction of Max Planck and Albert Einstein there, for novices in physics.) Stark joins the team, and together they make the time station (after a few failed comical attempts). They rope in all the remaining Marvel heroes for the big act. The plan is set: the team must get hold of the stones from their original sources, before Thanos 'had' laid hands on them, and eventually must protect the world from the devastation that anyway did not take place!
The rest of the movie is all about bringing the plan into action: and the action must've brought some fun, especially for the kids. In the end, just one billion $ box office question remains: In the time warp created by Marvel's movie makers, had the Endgame been made first, would there have been a need for the first (Infinity War)? No? And in that case, would there have a need for the second? That would have a happier ending....