I appreciate it for what it was but it just didn't work for me

Rating: 7/10 (7 May 2019)

This was a very well made movie. They pulled off a good job trying to mash all the characters into the film, and the movie just had to have a huge epic battle in the end. Otherwise, most audiences would instantly hate the movie. They tried to give all the characters something to do like they did in Infinity War, and it worked (yet they had to get rid of Captain Marvel for most of the movie to have this structure somewhat functional, like DC did with Superman in Justice League).

They've established that their time travel is different from other movies, but it still felt inconsistent and confusing. Long story short this just allowed them to shape the story as they needed it without the need to follow basic time travel rules.

Infinity War worked because it was a basic comic book movie with a twist ending nobody expected and an untypical villain. This one was reverted to basics. I knew they were doing time travel, but I thought that they would play this around Thanos and his re-thinking of his decisions from other time parallels. This never happened, even more, his character in the past is much more cliche and uninteresting (also much more stronger than without the gauntlet).

All the drama didn't work for me either. They always put a joke here and there to lighten up the tension and just because most of the characters are basic superheroes who spill one-liners here and there. Thus, all the dramatic moments were sacrificed to stay in-line with the characters.

The epic battle was confusing and felt like the mess they did in Ready Player One, just tons of hours of CGI artists' work. It's just me, but I get bored fast of these things. This is why all the fan service of putting all the characters into the movie didn't work for me. Infinity War had them all grouped and positioned for better understanding, here it's just a mess. But they really couldn't do this otherwise anyway.

I genuinely enjoyed only three moments in this movie, Tony Stark talking to his father in 1970, Thanos seeing the memories from the parallel timeline of his success and his death (which they wasted anyway later making him even more stupid than a basic comic book villain, hence his dialogue), and Cpt. America acting up "Heil, Hydra" in the elevator. These were amazing.

Other than that, even fat Thor and the Hulk hating stairs didn't even break a smile on my face (as most of the out of place humor). The theater actually laughed more when Red Skull said "Welcome, Natasha, daughter of Ivan." I live in Ukraine and these names are very basic for us, so it just sounded like he'd say "Welcome, Jenny, daughter of Billy".

Anyway. I did not feel the satisfaction or the emotion I thought I would. Stark's sacrifice was justified, yet again, the drama in this movie didn't work for me. I didn't feel changed emotionally and for me this means that this movie was unable to touch me in the rights places.