Great but deeply flawed

Rating: Null/10 (29 April 2019)

The remaining Avengers must figure out a way to bring back their vanquished allies to destroy Thanos.
A finely produced Marvel film, directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo deliver on the mammoth task of concluding this phase of the MCU. End Game is packed with emotion, thrills and a number great action scenes. There's some interesting ideas - a washed up Thor, a vengeful Hawkeye, Gamora's 'return', Hulk's Bannerisms, fighting duplicates, revisiting past films, forgotten characters and much more.
Russo's instalment is no doubt entertaining but after the credits roll and tears are shed for two of your favourite characters (many more, if you like root for the bad guys) 'fridge logic' creeps in.
Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and other writers grapple with time travel concept and shrug it off, wiping their hands of their responsibilities seemingly walking away by throwing in some one-liners and diagrams. Maybe they threw the time kitchen sink in by design so that fans will debate for many years. And that's the major issue with End Game, it doesn't work within its own logic with the writers moving their own goal posts. Sadly, even Doctors Strange's 1 in 14 million outcome is flawed. It's difficult enough to do films based solely on time travel, like Back to the Future, Timecrimes, Predestination to name a few and End Game just doesn't wrap it up neatly. You really do have to leave you brain at the door to buy into it.
Overall, a great film, with hard hitting emotional closure moments but unfortunately they've left it to 14 million fan theories to tie up the lose ends and as just you make sense of it - annoyingly it throws up another paradox issue or question.