Great, until...

Rating: 6/10 (30 August 2019)

I actually really liked two 3rds of this film. The time travel was done really well and the motivation was great. The way the heist was executed was awesome. Got some superb character development and arks to watch. "I'm still worthy!" was a favourite line for sure. The hawkeye and black widow scene was severly lacking in chemistry but that's ok. Plot worked fine. It was all going well, until...
In the last act, it just turned into another US military propaganda ending. "I am Ironman." Come on. Perhaps Americans can't see it because it is so prolific in that culture, but it sticks out like a sore thumb from where I'm sitting. "Captain America" stands against the army of invaders alone, proud. It's a great comic book moment but it's just all too relevent to current affairs to be entertaining. Then America leads the world against the baddies and they murder everyone in the name of peace. Ironman gets the gaunlet at the end and instead of thinking of a genius 'only tony stark' character ark completion 11/10 moment where he finds a way to create peace without killing anyone. He just asserts "I am Ironman" (military industrial complex personified then) and murders the invaders! How is he any different from Thanos?
1/3 of the film is spent mourning the 50% of living beings that died, and then Tony just does the same back to them. So...what is the moral here? The moral of the story is this: murder is ok if you kill ALL of them. Then they can't come back at you and you win because you write history. It's the Amalocites all over again. Given that this is a 10 year long project ending, I hoped they would be leaving a lasting and pertinent message for the future generation but instead, it's just the same old war-mongering ending as always.
Humans may never learn that violence only ever begets more violence. There is unequivically no such thing as violence in the name of peace. Do not be fooled.