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Rating: 4/10 (28 April 2019)

I had originally written a much longer, more detailed review in an attempt to pick apart this Greek tragedy as Marvel Studios officially exits caring-- stage left.
In the end, I ultimately decided to simply present a side-by-side view of Infinity War (IW) and Endgame (EG) over 2 major criteria:
Criteria 1 : The almost comedic devolution of the characters.
Thanos:
(IW) Three Dimensional and overall incredibly well-rounded villain. Portrayed as being afflicted with overwhelming grief which he overcomes only through his deep-seated foundational belief in 'restoring balance' to the universe, irrespective of the cost.
(EG) Amish. Reduced to the 'evil because evil' trope.
Thor:
(IW) Learns through the virtue of self-sacrifice, the innate and immutable responsibility one of royalty inherits through their birth-right, to be a just and able successor to their father, for the betterment of their people.
(EG) Broken-spirited has-been, reverts back to being a man-child.
Hulk:
(IW) Useless.
(EG) Somehow more useless.
Hawkeye:
(IW) Who.
(EG) Cares.
Criteria 2 : The plot being created by a deep learning robot skimming bad fan-fics.
On its own, honestly, isn't the worst film I've ever seen. Certainly very enjoyable, well-choreographed, sprinkled in there's some nice cinematography, littered with (for the most part) seamless CG, only a few editing mishaps, and with a some excellent quips here and there. Apart from that, however, it falls short on almost every metric.
What made EG especially disappointing was that IW felt like such a well-executed and promising first-act film for this follow-up to be just such an overwhelming let-down in comparison.
Overlooking the fact that this film has plot-holes large enough to navigate a burning blimp through. In the end it can all honestly be boiled down to simply being a little too overly concerned with being political, and in turn ended up being a very blatant cash-grab by Disney, along with some pretty flagrant beat-you-over-the-head, out of left field, virtue signaling.
Captain Marvel inexplicably gets a haircut off-screen. Thor delegates his throne to Valkyrie on a whim. Cap' passes off the shield to Falcon. It all just seems like a PC Twitter user's fever dream. Everything is just so arbitrarily connected that even-- uncharacteristic to Marvel movies-- some of the comedy seem misplaced. This film struggles so much with deciding on a pace, underlining theme, and prevalent tone that in the end the final product just ended up feeling lazy and non-cohesive.
In essence:
Pros -
Cons - Exists-- both canonically, and in real life.