Smart Hulk

Rating: 10/10 (27 February 2020)

This film gives us something that the comics had but the films lacked: the "Smart Hulk".
It's unfortunate that this new development with the character came about in the last film of the Avengers series, this is something that should've happened in one of the two hulk films. But I'm glad it finally happened here.
In fact I'm very impressed with the way the CGI was done for the character here, he looks very real. They've improved motion capture to the point where the actor themselves can provide the model for the CGI's movements. This goes all the way back to Gollum from lord of the rings, Who was also played but Andy Serkis, who played Ulysses Klaue in this franchise.
These avengers films have been basically about one catastrophe after another, in the first film New York City was trashed. In the second, some small city/state called Sokovia was utterly destroyed. In infinity war, the destruction is brought to Wakanda. And in this film, it's the avengers own base that is leveled.
But the amazing thing is that this film ties together, I lost count how many films is there? Three Iron Man films, three previous avengers films, Black panther, three Thor films. That's 10 so far, and then 11 if you want to include the Incredible Hulk, which was slightly outside canon for this franchise. None of the X-Men films tied into this so those can't be counted. What am I missing? Oh, two Spiderman films so far bringing it up to 13. And then Captain Marvel, 14. I am sure I am forgetting something. And then appearances within Agents of SHIELD, by Sif, Fury, Hill. Oh yes, two Guardians of the Galaxies, 16.
Nothing like this has ever been done and the amount of work that went into this elongated tale has been unprecedented.
And there are even more films related to the stories coming out soon.
What I love about these films is that they are exactly like the marvel crossovers that I have read, complex Iron Man, Avengers, they even had West Coast Avengers for a while, which became Force Works.
There are so many great stories in marvel comics that can be mind for future films. But it's just that we've never had a cast like this, involving all of the marvel titles.
I'm just very sad that they could not get the X-Men involved with this because I know they were part of the story too. But they did get Spiderman in there because the actor begged Sony to do it and they listened. Which was amazing.