Almost great movie

Rating: 8/10 (29 April 2019)

SPOILERS!
Before you say it - Yes, I know it's just a movie. Now... There were several inconsistencies that kept me from being completely satisfied. The biggest was - WTH happened to Thor?? Watiti and Hemsworth have destroyed the Thor character just because they wanted to make jokes. This was a god. The future King of Asgard. The future ALL-FATHER! Sure, he'd lost his mother, his father, and his best friend, and maybe his brother (several times). But he took the brunt of a star to craft a weapon - the Thanos killing kind - and needed to find a home for, and take of, his people. So he has a set back and what does he do?? He gives up. They turned him into a Volgstagg! There is no way this "new" Thor is worthy to wield Mjolnir. The new Thor is lazy and self centered, hardly the sort of warrior and leader that Odin imagined. This Thor abandoned his people, abandoned his friends, and abandoned his duty. Not worthy at all.
If Thor had been in shape and not coming off an Asgardian sized bender he might have given a better showing against Thanos and not been tossed around like a rag doll. Heck, Captain America gave a better effort with Mjolnir than Thor did with "a King's weapon". And what of Thor's magic belt? It was in the inventory log of the new Avengers HQ (see Spiderman - Homecoming). That belt allegedly doubles Thor's strength. Did he forget about it? Think about it for a second because if Cap is worthy to wield Mjolnir then he "shall posses the power of Thor". That means Thanos should have been facing the power of TWO THORS! With the belt that would have been the power of THREE THORS. So Thor bears the weight of Stark having to die to wield the stones because he wasn't ready to face Thanos. In Infinity War, an in-shape Thor, single-handedly defeated the Outriders and decimated their ships. Then he and Stormbreaker overcame the power of a full strength Gauntlet to come within about 24 inches of killing Thanos. But this Thor is easily bested by Thanos. It's like the directors dumbed him down to make it more even, maybe so Captain Marvel can steal the show.
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Captain America - his change in timeline begs the question: What happened to the plane with the bombs he was flying? Did he even go to Hydra HQ to get Bucky? If he didn't ditch the plane then he didn't go into the ice and so where is the plane? Also, he took Mjolnir into his alternate timeline - where is it now? Can Thor summon it? Did Cap have children? Since his genetics were altered, are his children any stronger, faster, or smarter? Did he ever tell Peggy that he made out with her great niece?
And handing the role of Captain America off to Bucky makes more sense than Sam. Sam has no super strength or healing ability, and we've seen how much of a beating CA takes all the time. I'd guess that without Stark tech he's not long for the CA role.
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The Gauntlet was made by Eitri. He was the only one who could have made Thanos a "device capable of harnessing the power of the stones." Thanos killed the Dwarves and shut down the forge just to make sure that Eitri couldn't make another one. But it turns out that all you need is a glove. Stark just grabbed them and without knowing how they needed to be "harnessed" just popped them into his glove. I'd say Eitri is a hoax.
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Lastly, the snap. If we remember back, Gamora used the phrase "a snap of his fingers" as a way of describing how easy it would be for Thanos to kill half the universe when he finally got all the stones. There was no instruction manual that said it had to be a finger snap. And even if that actually WAS the method to kill half of the universe - HOW DID GAMORA KNOW??? And why would Eitri make that a requirement? Some sort of twisted sense of humor?

Loved the movie, but there were all sorts of issues with the flow. And don't even get me started on the timeline of the creation of the gauntlet. THAT is seriously messed up.