Maybe the saga should have closed with IW and then rebooted.

Rating: Null/10 (24 April 2019)

I'm all about suspension of disbelief, especially when I'm watching a superhero movie. BUT
A RAT sets the whole plot in motion (so, Dr. Strange saw 14,000,605 timelines x 5 years each).
Aparrently, Thanos wiped all the waste collectors, or half the earth's population was so sad, they stopped bothering with trash.
An entire spaceship travels in time through a portal where people need a special suit and pym particles to do that.
One of the avengers could have gone back to find dr Pym and have him make more particles (or steal some) before the mission. Stress-free quantum time hops for everybody!
One of them could have just gone back to Thor and tell him to go for the head. But that would create a paradox and that is a no no. OR IS IT? Captain America travels back in time and lives the life he missed, waits for Peggy to die in a world without Captain America (but with one extra, deep frozen, Steve Rogers), and then returns to the original timeline, but before anyone has ever setup equipment for quantum time travel (or getting back from it). Basically he returns the stones so that no paradox is created, and then creates a paradox/new timeline to live in. Okay that makes sense.
Those that moved on with their lives have so much explaining to do to their previously loved ones. Oh, and Spiderman Far From Home had better take place in 2023 because they already messed up once with that timeline.

The movie overall is so fascinating that these, and other minor plot incoscistencies didn't bother me at all, the payoff in the assembling scene was SO worth it. The effects are incredible (apart from the Michael Douglas de-aging, that was a bit cringey). The feels when the original avengers close their character arcs are overwhelming.
Fat drunk Thor is welcome as a comic relief for 2-3 minutes, then it's just unbearable. Hulk Dab and Fortnite felt like 50 year olds wrote the script. The "female avengers" gathering at the same place same time in such an enormous battle could only happen in one out of 14,000,605 realities, one where Marvel is trying to force feed us feminism or akwardly trying to please women who were dragged by their boyfriends in the theatre.

Unlike IW, I won't be seeing this a second time in the theatre. You can show IW to someone who's only seen 2 or 3 Marvel movies after giving him some quick tips, and he'll be excited af by the time it's over. Show him EG which has half the characters and he'll probably be confused.

After the hype dies down, and a million Thor memes pop up on the nets, people will realise this is far from perfect, but it couldn't have been better because it had to close so many arcs and it had to contain time travel. And time travel is the price we pay for the masterpiece that was the IW ending.