Faultless

Rating: 10/10 (28 April 2019)

The best movie I've ever seen, truly extraordinary film making. I'm late arriving into the MCU, theres still half a dozen movies I haven't seen. I'm also no Marvel aficionado.
Who cares? Comic book movies are supposed to be ridiculous, other-worldly, full of people with absurd abilities competing against each other. It shouldn't be this loaded with character development. Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Thor, Romanov, Ant-Man, Banner, Pepper Potts, Nebula, Hawk-Eye.....all the survivors from Infinity War have a completely unique burden to being a survivor of Thanos' 'snap'. But more than that, this one movie acts as a denouement to 21 other movies and a mass of individual storylines. In Ultron, it was a big surprise to learn that Barton is massively family-focused, but now we know that, it's no surprise whatsoever how he responds to mass extinction, basically carrying out an individualised purge against all that should have turned to dust and didn't.
You can comfortably know nothing about these characters, and still be a blubbering wreck. End Game is also perfectly balanced, without doubt the darkest movie in the franchise, but also the funniest. The Russo's clearly recognising that without some comic relief, the characters themselves would be overcome by anger and grief, thwarting their quest to reverse the snap.
It's an absolute fanboys dream, bringing back to many characters that we thought were long gone. Baffled by how well written this was. And I've not even mentioned that friggin' battle!!!