Lazy cop-out

Rating: 3/10 (29 April 2019)

Do you remember your least favourite episodes from the Star Trek series?
You know the ones I'm talking about. They involve time travel.
Yup, when you have no idea how to fix the writing mess you've made, reach into your bag of hacks and pull out time travel.
So too have the writers of the latest Marvel film.
Worse yet, it's a mirror image of the previous Marvel Avengers film. Only this time, we have the heroes digging around in the past tracking down all the stones (as opposed to Thanos doing it) and a giant pointless CGI fight at the end (just like the last time around.)
I couldn't figure out how the film was 3 hours long, until they started getting the stones, each section is played out seemingly just to pad the runtime. When the Hulk puts on the Iron-Man created infinity glove and snaps his fingers to bring everyone back, all the returned folks take it quite well, just a quip and a node of "oh, we were dead, and now we're back? That's fine."
This film glosses over so many more interesting aspects of the plot in a rush to get to the CGI fest that is the end.
Sure, the film will make billions from all the fans (and let's face it, this is for the fans only) but it doesn't deserve to. It's a hackneyed mess.