A 3 hour montage film

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2019)

Endgame wraps up the decade of MCU nicely. A little too nicely. Too many loose ends tied up without any explanation, while tracking through all the movies so far. All the characters from 21 films showed up, even some cameos. Hell, even Natalie Portman showed up! But was that necessary??
But the problem in the end was the amount of time spent wallowing in sorrow, which meant that all that brilliant cast of heroes were short-changed, when the time came for them to step up. Doctor Strange brought everyone back and then barely did anything, Black Panther ran for 5 seconds, Shuri was right of frame for all of 5 seconds, Winter Soldier took a couple of shots, I could go on...
The emotional moments were not emotional enough, especially Tony's death. Spidey's fade in Infinity War was heart-breaking, Tony's death barely registered. Natasha sobbed for a few frames and then sacrificed herself, quickly forgotten 30 seconds later. I would have been fine with Cap dying in the battle against Thanos, because his life was suddenly made selfish at the end. Which is completely ridiculous, after building that legacy all through these movies.
In the end, had it not been for Cap, I would have scored this movie a 5. Him picking up Mjolnir was just pure gold