A superhero "war" movie which feels more like a magical fairy tale. Not as good as the original Avengers.

Rating: 6/10 (10 May 2019)

Spoilers follow...
As somebody who has watched and enjoyed superhero movies since the first Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve, Dark Knight Trilogy, all the way to the first Avengers this movie does not live up to A-grade standards.
First the good:
1. Impressive visual effects
2. Great acting by Robert Downey and the entire cast
The bad:
1. The solution to their woes--time travels seems like an idea from Harry Potter rather rather than a superhero movie. Instead of what it was supposed to be ...super heroes working together to intelligently plan and execute a way to beat Thanos...against all odds....with the risk of certain death, what we have as a solution is.... to go back in time and avoid facing Thanos altogether. How unheroic! And what a convenient device to avoid solving the problem created in Infinity War! With this precedent we should not believe that any superhero can die, since it will be possible to correct any death by time travel with the effort of the flick of a switch. Didn't know being a superhero could be so easy!
2. Is this supposed to be a war? How is it that we have a record number of heroes/aliens/explosions in this "war" and yet not a single casuality...or barely a scratch on the good side. Are these aliens totally inept? And if by some miracle any of these heroes actually dies...no problem...you can always go back in time and voila!...problem solved. By the way, the unnatural way Iron Man died does not count because Robert Downey is clearly tired of this role, and just like Harrison Ford in Force Awakens, probably just asked to be killed off abruptly. Let me bet that if Robert Downey was willing to continue, no way will they kill this money maker!
So in conclusion, while this movie is supposed to be a superhero war movie, the magical use of time travel to solve all the world's ills is not the kind of short cut instant formula solution that make good movies. The fact that they have a war with no casualties on the "good" side confirms the bad storytelling of this very long big budget movie. Perhaps Disney can focus less on selling more toys and have a story with more realism that follows natures laws.