Yawn - Didn't they do this already?

Rating: 7/10 (27 April 2019)

Okay, so I saw this film yesterday and i was distinctly underwhelmed.
At three hours in length it seriously overstays it's welcome. It turns out there is only so much of people in spandex hitting each other that I can take.
At the end of the last movie, villain Thanos had snapped his fingers and killed half the worlds population.
Endgame picks up five years later with the sudden reappearance of Ant-man and his idea to use magic technology to travel back in time and gather up all the infinity stones so they can snap all the dead people back to life.
Even by comic-book standards that is a far fetched and really dumb plot.
So time travel means it's a literal greatest hits movie of previous marvel cannon movies. Although at times it felt too much like a cheesy clip show.
Far too many characters have to have their fifteen minutes of doing something which is why this film is easily an hour too long.
If you were looking for an original story you will be disappointed. Even the big battle finale is just a tired re-run of the ending of Avengers: Infinity War.
This is a really poor movie that misses most of it's forced attempts at both humour and pathos.
I genuinley do not understand the gushing great reviews this film is gettting.
It's a bit of a bloated mess.