Felt like the beginning of the end of the movie theater

Rating: 5/10 (27 April 2019)

There probably will be nothing that tops Avengers Endgame at the movie theaters ever again. All signs indicate the movie theater industry is dying. Very few films can open well anymore. I realized after watching Triple Frontier on Netflix at home that honestly, there really is no need to go to a movie theater anymore. My 4K TV that is 55 inches cost $250 at Best Buy. That is the entry level for big screen watching at home now. Buy a projector and you can watch on an even bigger screen for a bit more effort and expense although with roll-up TVs and short-throw projectors getting more popular, entertainment in a box will soon be a very real possibility. And that's not even mentioning cellphones, laptops and tablets.
So as for Endgame, sad to say, instead of this Avengers being split into two to tell one cohesive story, unfortunately, the Russos took a more pretentious route and decided to tell two stories instead. It becomes clear after an incredibly dull, and I'm not exaggerating here, hour and a half, the movie finally picks up and gets more interesting. It may take a while for the fanboys to admit it, but this was a really, really subpar movie. I mean, it felt like the Russos made Infinity War as a complete movie, only to have Disney hack off the last thirty minutes to finish it off and tell the Russos they have four hours to write Endgame to make as a separate movie. These guys are definitely talented directors, no doubt, but this was a really, really bad movie motivated by profit-making. It showed. The plot holes are YUGE.
I kind of liked where the story went when this movie picked up around the halfway point. The problem is, it could easily have been done in the last movie. If they could make a cut condensing both movies into one and cut out the BS, it would be incredible. I will probably never watch Endgame again, just being honest. It's a bad movie. The beginning almost invalidates everything that happened in Infinity. It just should not have happened, period. It makes Thanos look stupid.
And oh yeah Marvel, any reasonably intelligent person can see the end was an out for the stunts pulled in the movie. It was the screenwriter's equivalent of a blank check. In one other pivotal scene, the answer to the dilemma was literally staring the characters in the face but they were too dumb to realize it. Never trust comic books or the movies. Logan pulled a similar stunt too; if you watched the first Wolverine movie, you'd spot the trick they pulled easily too.
I couldn't honestly recommend seeing this in theaters. Trust me on this. It felt almost like a cheesy half-baked expansion pack of a videogame.