A brilliant finale to the longest movie series ever made

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2019)

Endgame is everything you would want in a grand finale to the MCU as we all grew up knowing it. However i preferred the Infinity Wars movie before it frankly, but only in the sense that i liked SW: The Empire Strikes Back, more than SW: Return of the Jedi, both some of my all time fave scifi films. I picked this is a non spoiler review simply because i dont discuss aspects of the plot or actions of the heroes, otherwise this is sort of a spoiler review, but it isn't, go see it before you read this stuff regardless you'd be an idiot to risk spoilers in these reviews.
Infinity War had much better pacing throughout the film than Endgame did, the first half suffers from partly nonsensical pacing and a slowness to it that i haven't seen in any previous films, but i guess they were catering to the fans that want to savor their favorite actors and heroes before anything might happen to them, which it does well in that regard.
My main and only gripe is that Captain Marvel is in the film, she was clearly a forced entry, likely forced upon the Russo Brothers behind the scenes by corporate, and her presence doesn't fit the plot, causes alot of 4th wall breaking as a result, reducing the immersive aspects of the film for me at least. And not to mention she is frankly unlikable, uncharismatic in the extreme (easily the least interesting and charismatic hero or main character in the entire MCU at this point, Nebula being put into a big role in this film did her wonders as a character and actress, she is no longer an also-ran in the MCU), unattractive (ScarJo has been looking over the hill in recent efforts but she hit the gym again for this film and i had no problems admiring her acting and physique), and has the acting skills of a dead fish frankly. Her character is also written like an emotionally dead Mary Sue and it seriously detracts from the story as a result, the Russo's did a good job of keeping her status consistent with her solo film aswell as keeping her out of the film as much as possible, the rewrites they must have had to do to the script to put her in would have given them stomach ulcers from the distaste I'm sure.
Amen to the fact that she only appeared at the beginning and the end of the film, otherwise i would have seriously scaled down my rating, every scene she was in automatically reduced my enjoyment of the film as a whole.
Otherwise the acting is great for everyone, the minor characters we've seen only in bit parts throughout the MCU, many of them have gotten much bigger roles and for the better, they were all stellar in their performances. The finale is definitely the highlight of it, and the reason you should see this film in cinema, as soo much goes on, it would be quite hard to follow on anything smaller than a 50+ inch 4k tv in the dark.
The actors stepping out and/or dying have served their time and all had many great moments for you to observe and appreciate them in just this film alone before their exit from the screen, their character currency, was very well spent.
Frankly i can see myself only occasionally watching any marvel movies in the future, and none in the cinema, and i'm not mad about it, i hold no resentments, i'm just satisfied 100% by this films outcome and my time has passed for what i enjoy in these films, i've outgrown it, and you see some ugly seeds being planted for future degradation of the MCU, with clear forced moments of girl power (i'm not against female superheroes or strong female roles, i have known such women all my life, the problem is far too many writers don't know how to craft such women, they don't need to PROVE anything, if they are strong women, it is largely self-evident in their voice, mannerisms and actions, you don't need to state it, or give them a ridiculous advantage over everyone else, and you simply don't need to fake it, and faking confidence and inner strength is what insecure, weak-willed women influenced by society and gurl power propaganda do, which causes their actions to become two-faced, obnoxious and repulsive, writers failing at writing strong women tend to create these monsters on a regular basis in tv and cinema now, and it's a serious plague. Captain Marvel is merely the latest, and most painfully obvious version of this problem.) that break the 4th wall and caused some serious cringing in the cinema on my part, something i haven't had trouble with watching MCU movies in the past.
I'm very happy about how this film managed to dodge most of the bullets being fired at it by corporate Disney and i can stop watching MCU movies as a whole without any burning questions, i couldn't thank the Russo's enough for making Infinity Wars and Endgame, 2 of my favourite MCU films, right at the end of them all.