The journey ends with the best of the best

Rating: 10/10 (30 June 2019)

OH MY GOD ARE THERE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE YET, DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW.
Also, I'm baaaaack! Sorry I was absent for quite a while. Also, this review is extremely late; I was planning on making an Endgame review for quite a while, but now I'm doing it! YAY!!!!
So this is it. This is the big one. The ultimate conclusion. Avengers: Endgame. TONS AND TONS of hype was built up for this movie, and it's probably the biggest movie of all time even. But with all that said, is it any good? You better believe it. This might actually be the greatest superhero movie of all time, even better than Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Logan, and The Dark Knight. If you can top The Dark Knight, then you're an extremely powerful sorcerer.
What's the story? After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos's actions and restore balance to the universe.
Alright. What am I supposed to say about this movie that hasn't been said by literally everyone yet? Well, let's talk about the fight scene first: I think it is the greatest moment in cinema history. Now, I know what you're all thinking: "REALLY? THAT'S THE GREATEST MOMENT IN CINEMA HISTORY? WHAT KIND OF LOW STANDARDS DO YOU HAVE?" Well, I am an ENORMOUS fan of the MCU, and I'm not a master critic, so please bear with me! I feel like that scene is just sooooooo amazing because we see all of the Avengers together and trying to destroy Thanos and his army, and it's just so beautiful. Once Cap whispers "assemble", everything is just so amazing- actually, saying it's amazing is an understatement. Almost EVERY character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in it, and they're just doing what they do best: being awesome and murdering everything. Even the Thanos snap victims walk through a bunch of portals and arrive, and when I saw it opening morning (yeah, I managed to get tickets for OPENING DAY), the audience went WILD. What accompanies this mind-blowing fight is the insanely heroic and powerful score by Alan Silvestri (my favorite film composer of all time) that REALLY emphasizes how big it is, but that's not all! The end of this scene made me CRY. Yeah, a lot of movies don't make me cry, but this one DOES. So after Tony Stark snaps his fingers on the new Infinity Gauntlet and delivers his instant classic line, "I am Iron Man", he dies. The reason why this scene is so emotionally affective is not only the buildup to the scene, but the fact that Tony Stark was the man who started it all. Don't argue Carol Danvers because it took her 21 movies to actually be in the MCU. The funeral didn't help either. But anyways, another really sad scene in the movie is the Soul Stone Sacrifice scene where Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff dies as well. This wasn't as affective as the Tony Stark death scene, but it was still emotionally powerful because the buildup was, once again, properly dramatic. You can tell Clint didn't want her to die, and they kept fighting until Natasha finally decided to sacrifice herself. "It was supposed to be me," Clint says in a future scene of the movie. The only actual flaw in the movie is that it feels kinda slow-paced, but that was probably the intention of the film to make it more serious and dramatic compared to most of the other MCU movies. The real hero of the movie, however, is the rat that saved Ant-Man from the Quantum Realm. The rat deserves all of the attention. I also like how they went back in time to get all of the Infinity Stones and added their more comical spin on the previous MCU movies (that is, until the Soul Stone scene). One more thing I'd like to mention is that Captain America/Steve Rogers goes back in time at the end of the movie to restore the Infinity Stones, but ends up old in the future and gives Falcon his shield, proving that Falcon is gonna be the next Captain America!!!! Meanwhile, Steve decided to go back in time to be with Peggy Carter (he found her in an earlier time-travel scene), and I feel like that's the ultimate part of emotion in the movie. Just... the ending is awesome and so is the rest of the movie!!!!!
In conclusion, Avengers: Endgame is a fantastic movie filled with tons and tons of answers after what happened in Avengers: Infinity War and even more really engaging things that make it really good as a standalone movie. If you like Marvel, you'll LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this movie!!!!!! The ending is so mind-blowing and the rest of the movie is really good, and that FINAL BATTLE!!!! Even the TITLE CARD emphasizes how awesome the movie is by playing a powerful and heroic version of the Avengers theme. One more thing: you know how I said The Dark Knight was my favorite movie of all time? Well, now it's this. Avengers: Endgame. TOO MUCH YES. I can't wait for Phase 4 of the MCU!!!! Right up there with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as just some of the BEST franchise endings ever.
Funny thing: I went this ENTIRE review without mentioning Stan Lee's final cameo. Personally, it's not one of his BEST cameos, but it's still a funny cameo. God, I miss Stan Lee... he was awesome. Things are never gonna be the same without his cameos...