Endgame is for the biased

Rating: 6/10 (26 April 2019)

The beginning............is absolute genius. The opening scene draws you in emotionally and gives you the true hatred for Thanos that you need in order to watch this movie. The rest of the movie erases that. If you think about this plot critically, there is no reason for the ending to be the way that it is.
For the average fan, this movie is incredible. Not only does every character get their shining moment, but every moment you want as a casual fan, a CASUAL fan, happens for the first 2hr 40mins. The last 21 minutes however are lackluster. There is a LOT of fan-servicing.
This movie however, is filled with plot holes that any critically thinking fan can see and loathe about. Not only are key mechanics not explained with any clarity, but they completely defy literally any concept of them that the human race of today have theorized about. The Russos simply write what they want into the storyline to make things work in their favor and that is that.
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Tony's funeral is completely glazed over. I almost teared up when Pepper said her goodbye. But how do you not show a ceremony for his body? A STATUE maybe? This is THE foundation of the MCU thus far, cinematically, and you give CAP the glory of standing up to Thanos' armies by himself in the end? The Russo brothers blindly idolize Cap as an invulnerable super-human who can take any blow and get back up. Give me a reason for this.
Captain Marvel is a badass for 3 minutes of the movie, and back-handed the next.
Not to mention the Thanos that they fight in the end is not the Thanos that we've grown to hate. The Thanos we've grown to hate has killed trillions. He dies. The Thanos we get has not *snapped* yet, but the Russo brothers need a severed head to serve to fanboys.
Why return the stones afterwards? Not only are you releasing the stones into other timelines and allowing for those timelines to create the Thanos we hated in Infinity War, but you're allowing your own timeline to be affected like the one's you manipulated the stones from. Not to mention the fact that Loki taking the stone and escaping in 2013 while having Cap and Tony go back in time WITHIN that separate timeline messed up further timelines. Are we to believe that the Avenger's are justified in ruining other timelines in order to fix their own?
Why can't Thor speak to his mother about future events if she already knows that Thor in Endgame is in fact from the future. She know of future events but doesn't know about her incoming death? The movie's own logic explained that conversing with people in other timelines could ruin that timeline, yet not affect your timeline's future. With that said, why not just have Thor inform his mother of her death? This would not affect his timeline but allow Thor in the other timeline to have a mother. UGH
This movie is good for casual fans. This movie is a sub-5 rating for critical-thinking individuals. I only give this a 6 for the Russo brothers successfully drawing my attention away from fat Thor in the end and instilling that heroes with unideal bodies can be super too.