Endgame is not Endgame: Good but not on par with Infinity War

Rating: 7/10 (30 April 2019)

I cannot exactly understand why everyone celebrates this movie as if it were genius. In my opinion, it is not. It's good, very good but not genius.
Infinity war was epic. An epic tale, with great heroes and a terrifying and captivating villain. It was dramatic. Unexpected and intense things happened (Gamorrha death e.g.). Endgame does lack most of these cherries on the cake. Sure it gives us some great moments. The beginning made me feel again (Hawkeye, Tony's entrance etc.). However it stays within the realm of delivering nostalgia. It does not make enough use of the time travel plot. Not enough crazy mindbending storyline to offer. There are way better time travel stories out there. All this movie does while "time traveling" is getting nostalgic. Tony's demise was not that surprising nor was that everyone else was resurrected. The only crazy "twist" was Natasha dying.
In between the movie also got kind of boring in my opinion. A feeling I never had once during Infinity war. Thanos did not feel like a huge threat nor did anything else. They could have made so much more mindbending twists of the time traveling but with the alternative reality direction etc. sure it's kind of set up to be uninteresting. (maybe thanos should have known all along? Maybe they should have made it a conflict of Tony having to decide between his life now and bringing the "old way" and people back? Maybe something else? But give me more final thrill and darkness, in such a final piece please). Captain Marvel felt entirely displaced. The only thing she does (again) is showing up and destroying spaceships. And some logic holes spanning the movie (e.g. at the end why are all of Peter's classmates still his age and nobody 5 years older--> highly unlikely outcome?).
It maybe wasn't supposed to be another infinity war but except for Steve Rogers I am not sure anybody got Endgame here.