Truly Beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2019)

The audience is thrown into the deep end from the word go, opening with the decimation of Clint Barton's family. This scene gives the audience a taste of what this movie has in store, reminiscent of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which opened with a comparably ruthless action sequence, filled with pain and violence, to tell the audience that this is a different type of film from what they are used to seeing.
The murder of Thanos, happening early in the film was definitely a tell for how unorthodox this film will be. Usually, the main villain of the film is taken through a series of events, leading to their demise, and although Thanos was taken through this journey in Infinity War, Endgame is a new film, with somewhat new beginnings.
The assassination of Thanos was carried out swiftly, and without any sort of struggle, which surprised me up until the point where we were told Thanos no longer had the stones. Not only did this bring panic and desperation to the table, but it showed how truly powerful the stones are, how Thanos can be such an unstoppable force with the stones, and merely a bump in the road without.
How the killing of Thanos was depicted played a large part in how Thanos was no longer the problem. In other films, the killing of the villain comes with a large sense of relief and triumph, however when Thanos died it felt almost as though nothing had changed, it showed that The Avengers had still failed, and there was no going back.