Somewhat Overhyped

Rating: 6/10 (25 April 2019)

Seriously, this is probably one of the most overhyped movies that I have ever seen in my life, and a part of me wonders whether the MCU can actually survive after this film. Well, from looking at the reviews it seems like it satisfied quite a lot of people, but was it a good movie - well, no, not really. Okay, I enjoyed it, sort of, by the overhyped nature of this film sort of made it somewhat painful to sit through in places, and the three hour length, honestly, it could have simply been cut down somewhat.
Look, don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily believe that this is a bad movie, but rather I felt that it was overtly long, overtly hyped, and in parts somewhat dull. As for the acting, well, it was passable, but not great. In fact I felt that Mark Ruffalo really didn't shine anywhere near as much as he did in the previous films.
Yet, the one thing that I'll give it credit for is the depth of the characters, and the fact that Captain Marvel did not dominate the film anywhere near as much as I, and many others, were expecting. The thing is that she popped in at the beginning, and at the end, and that was about it. The main focus of the film was on the three main Avengers from the original series.
Yeah, okay, we also had Rocket Racoon playing a major role, and I'll certainly be giving it points for that - I love Rocket Racoon, and I suspect this is why he was brought into this film. In fact, by whittling down a lot of the characters did give it a bit more entertainment value, in that we weren't constantly jumping all over the place, as well as our attention being drawn apart by so many people. Instead we had what could be considered a core number and that was it.
Mind you, they completely stuffed up the whole time line thing. You known, with the end part where they appeared to destroy Thanos and his cohorts. Then again, I also suspect that since they had time travelled to get here, they were probably just sent back to their original time line, namely so that we wouldn't end up having a complete Back to the Future style mess.
Actually, that is something that I should mention, and that is the Back to the Future references. Yeah, we had a sort of jumping around to other parts of the series and reliving some of the older films. This, in part, made it feel like just one of those clip shows that some series tend to show because they are stuck for a story line. Then again, the clip show elements were rather small, and they ended up creating some interesting side shows, but it still felt like a clip.
Oh, and then there was that part right at the beginning - it just happened too fast. After everything they had been through in the previous film, they pretty quickly found Thanos, and lopped his head of. Honestly, where was the master villian that we had seen in the previous film, the one that just seemed to be impossible to beat. Then again, I guess, without the infinity gauntlet, and his thugs, there probably isn't all that much to consider.