Avengers: Endgame REVIEW

Rating: 9/10 (4 August 2019)

This review contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame and Infinity War
We are in the endgame now...
Is there anything left to say about a movie over two billion dollars and has been a bigger topic of conversation around the world than Game of Thrones and Donald Trump?
Turns out, a lot.
What's this movie about?
Avengers: Endgame is following the devastating events of the Infinity War. The universe is in ruins. With the remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe.
The culmination of 10 years and 22 films. The most comprehensive mythological ever presented on the screen, an incredible range of world-class talent, and all the rest. This is the "end of the road" Tony started us on.
MY OPINION:
Story:
We never see our heroes like this in any other Marvel film. They know they lost and they know that they can't do anything to reverse what happened in Infinity War. As an audience, you really feel the emotion of loss of hope.
Everybody is in a different location, Iron Man is trapped in space with Nebula while Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, and other fellow Avengers are in the Avenger tower.
First of all, I love this movie, but at the same time, like all the other movies in the Marvel Universe, it has the same flaws.
This is a 3-hour long movie and they made a great job balancing all the character and action moments. Phasing sometimes is a little off, but that's okay because it doesn't distance you out from the movie.
In the beginning, Captain Marvel saves Tony Stark in the first 10 minutes of the movie and that to me is just lazy writing. It was too fast and it doesn't give you the time to acknowledge that these characters are in real danger. Another issue that I have with this movie is that Ant-Man is saved by a rat. I don't know whose idea that was, but we had some theories of how Ant-Man could return from the quantum realm and is this really what they gave us? We're supposed to believe that Ant-Man is saved by a rat. I just don't buy this stuff in movies.
Characters:
Let's talk about characters since this movie is heavily about the story and character ark. Characters are always brilliantly written and balanced throughout the whole film. They took some risks with two characters which could have turned out pretty bad, but somehow they managed to find the perfect way to do it. Of course, I'm talking about Thor and Hulk ( Bruce Banner ). I loved both of the characters. What they have changed felt quite ambitious and hilarious, although I sometimes miss the old Hulk smashing things like the good old days.
This film is heavily focused on Iron Man ( Tony Stark ) and Captain America ( Steve Rogers ). What they have done with these two characters is just wonderful and brilliant. In the beginning, you feel the tension between these two characters because of what happened in the Civil War. One of Tony's iconic line this movie proposed was " I love you 3000 " which added this film something special. Considering how Hawkeye's relationship with his daughter was described, this line emphasized it all perfectly. Tony's sacrifice at the end when he took all the infinity stones and snapped his finger killing Thanos and his army was very well done. And Tony's final line " I AM IRON MAN " added another layer of emotion to that moment. His final line is a reference to the very first Iron Man film that created this huge universe. Marvel finds the perfect way to end Tony's ark and it couldn't be any better. His monologue at the end was so meaningful and precious. In the end, as an audience, you understand and admit that this is the end of the Iron Man storyline.
Captain America's story arc didn't fall behind Iron Man's in any manner. In this movie, Marvel finds a perfect way to end Captain America's ark. In the beginning, he is hopeless like all the fellow Avengers. He adds this film so much heart and emotion. At the final battle, we saw Captain America hold the Mjollnir which was an awesome moment. We saw Captain America move Mjholiner a little bit in Avengers: Age of Ultron and it was even better to see Captain America finally lift and hold Mjollnir which proves that he is finally worthy. After Hulk snapped and got every hero back in action Captain America says " AVENGERS ASSEMBLE ", this moment was something to be experienced. After the final battle, Captain America had to bring the stones back to fix different timelines. After that, we are seeing old Captain America which left us confused, but soon after that, we learn that after he puts the stones back to their original locations, he lived his full life with his only love Agent Carter. When he finally returns as an old man back to his timeline, he gives his shield to Falcon when everyone thought it was gonna be Bucky, but I thought it was a great moment between Captain America and Falcon. The movie ends with Captain America and Agent Carter dancing in the past which was a reference to the first Captain America film similar to the reference mentioned about Iron Man earlier. It was a great ending for Captain America's character ark. It couldn't end any better. It was a wonderful and bittersweet ending.
Time Travel:
Now it's the time for the main concept that everyone is talking about, which is time travel.
This is not an ordinary time travel film like Back to the Future. At the beginning of this film, we find out that Thanos used the stones again on another planet. Our heroes are once more going to try to get the stones from Thanos, but when they arrive they are learning that Thanos used the stones to destroy the stones. Then the film cuts to five years later...
Our heroes are desperate and try to move on some do, but not them. All of a sudden Ant-Man appears and talks about the possibilities of time travel. After Tony changes his decision and joins the team again for the possibilities of time travel. After they find out how time travel works they are going back in time and the movie turns into a time heist.
Time travel is a risky thing to do in any movie because it has science behind it and if you change the rules of time travel people will judge every little thing, in the end, it could be a bad choice for your film. In this film, they change the rules and not everything makes sense, but after they explained how it works in this universe it started to makes more sense. This is a superhero movie after all not everything will going to make sense and that's okay. After they went back on time the movie shines and we as an audience are experiencing the old MCU films once again which was an awesome moment to experience in the theater. Our heroes are traveling different timelines through MCU the reason is they are trying to restore the stones before Thanos for the sake of the universe. Hawkeye and Natasha went to Vormir to get the soul stone, but they didn't know the requirements for the soul stone. Then we as audience witnessing the terrible event that happened to Natasha aka Black Widdow. She sacrifices herself for the soul stone which was a shocking moment that I didn't see coming. After all, this is a fun, ambitious, different and emotional time heist superhero film.
CONCLUSION:
In the end, this is a brilliantly written, well-directed and well-acted action-packed superhero film that fans were waiting for. Sometimes passing is little off and there are some lazy moments and not all the time travel stuff makes sense, but as a whole, it just works and creates a whole different superhero experience for the audience. I love this movie and every superhero fan will enjoy this movie. This is the end of the journey Tony had started us on and it ended beautifully.
Rating: 9/10