"Avengers: Endgame" Review- The World's Last Hope

Rating: 10/10 (18 February 2020)

Is this the end or can the Avengers pull off one last miracle? After a 11 year journey that spans across 22 films for a total of 3000 minutes of screen time, the Marvel saga's final tale is being told (Coyle, 2019). After watching Avengers: Endgame, which is just over 3 hours long, it was very satisfying to see how all of the movies are interconnected into one movie. You will laugh and you will also cry while hanging on every word of dialogue because you don't want the movie to end. Avengers: Endgame is everything that an action hero fantasy sci-fi movie should be by finding a way to give all of the Marvel heroes a role to play in the movie.

The Marvel journey began all the way back in 2008 with Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man. I think that Downey expertly portrays Tony Stark who described himself in 2012's "The Avengers" as a "Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist" by combining humor, charisma and is an absolute master at the "one liner". Despite Stark's many character flaws and personality quirks, he's a good man and you find yourself rooting for him. Even though there are 22 different Marvel movies, there is always a reference to Iron Man/Tony Stark.
Chris Evans, who plays Cpt. Steve Rogers, aka: Captain America, does an excellent job of bringing the character to life. While Captain America is the oldest Avenger, he is also the strongest. Possibly the only person that could lift up Mjolnir, the hammer of the God of Thunder, Thor. I believe that Chris Hemsworth was destined to play the role of Thor. Standing at 6'-3" tall with long blonde hair, he is a perfect match to Thor from the comic books.
"Avengers: Endgame" takes place 5 years after Thanos' "snap" that wiped out 50% of all living things. While half of the Avengers are scattered across different locations around the globe, as well as the universe, trying to pick up the pieces after "The snap", most of the remaining heroes are headquartered at the Avenger's base in New York. However, some of the heroes have seemed to have lost their sense of identity. One is mad at the world and is trying to rid the world of the remaining evil, while the other has turned into a slacker with a beer belly.
One constant in the Marvel "cinematic universe" has been Stan Lee, the creator of the Marvel Universe. Sadly, Lee passed away on November 12th, 2018 and did not get to see the joy that "Avengers: Endgame" brought to the world. However, across the 22 movie arc, each director has found a way to give Lee a small but memorable cameo in every movie. "Avengers: Endgame" is no different. "Endgame definitively closes a few chapters in the Avengers saga in highly satisfying fashion. It is a tremendously entertaining intergalactic trip" (Warner, 2019, p.1).
While "Avengers: Endgame" is no longer in theaters, you have multiple options to enjoy this masterpiece of a film. Marvel is now owned by Disney and can be viewed on "Disney Plus" for a monthly subscription of $6.99. You can also find "Avengers: Endgame" on Blu-Ray and DVD at any retailer for $19.99. For an overall score for "Avengers: Endgame", I would give it "11 out of 10 stars". It's just that good. This movie is rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action and some language. I think the audience needs to prepare for an emotional roller coaster while watching this movie. I think that it is helpful to understand the movie better if you have seen all of the other Marvel movies as all of the other movies are interconnected. I think "Avengers: Endgame" is an excellent buy because it is a fitting conclusion to the 22 movie story arc.