Not Marvel's best Film

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2019)

Avenger's Endgame is the finale of almost 20 years of Marvel's cinematic universe. As such, I went in with high hopes and came out with rather mediocre mixed feelings. A lot of this movie rides on the audience being emotionally attached to the existing Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.
The story-line is rather simplistic to be honest, if you watched Avenger's Infinity War, the "solution" that they comes up with feels a little Deus Ex Machina.
The writers clearly and obviously wrote off any explanations of what the characters *should* have done by saying that there is canonically only one way that the story could have happened (by Strange checking the future timelines); in what is clearly an example of lazy writing.
The visuals are fine, the music is great, character development is lacking; none of the characters actually make any on-screen development. In fact, to save on screen time, both the Hulk and Thor make off-screen development which feels cheap and misplaced.
Instead, the writers spend most of their time dwelling on rather lack lustre fight scenes and bad jokes. It was clear that this movie could have been so much more, if only be examining the deleted scenes.
If you are a hardcore fan of Marvel movies, this is obviously a 100% watch, you will get all of their Easter eggs and nods to previous movies. If you are watching this movie series casually, and you are not emotionally attached to any of the characters & you can disconnect yourself from the nostalgia, then you will see behind the golden mask that the Russo Brothers and co. have crafted for this movie, that there is a lacklustre mess with no direction.