EndLame is disappointing and messy

Rating: 3/10 (9 May 2019)

Just 3 hours of fan service that doesn't really hold up to any scrutiny and doesn't really make sense from an objective standpoint. Obviously all (or most) superhero movies require a suspension of disbelief but they should atleast hold up to their own presumptions. When you start bending the whole narrative structure for some big moments, it just lessens the impact imho. Like for example, some big moments like Grandpa Rogers being there just for the sake of creating an emotional response, even though it massively undermines the character, or the specific choice of 5 years so they can force a 4 year old Morgan into the story for greater emotional impact.
I've read a lot of comic books (mostly batman though), and have to hand it to marvel that they have mostly done a better job than DC with the movies, some examples being IW (my favourite MCU movie), Dr. Strange, Winter Soldier, Civil War, Thor Ragnarok, and Black Panther (overrated but still pretty good). Endgame is definitely not in that list, infact so much so that I feel 'Endlame' would've been a more honest and appropriate title.
It makes no sense on so many levels, they basically reduced Thanos to a caricature (he had some impact in IW but here he's just a generic evil bad guy who doesn't think much), and time travel is the ultimate cop-out. I could go on with all the flaws and really dumb stuff (how the hell does Laura Barton's cellphone still work 😁, the power levels make no sense, Captain Marvel is conspicuously missing through most of it and why is she not aware of Thanos' genocide across planets etc), but basically the movie was absolute rubbish and takes massive liberties and leaps of logic which the fanboys blindly accept.
I've been in the minority when it comes to movies before. I loved the universally panned BvS, though I'll add that the ultimate edition is the only one to watch. Sure it had it's share of silliness like the 'Martha' moment, but that movie got badly burned as a result while none of that seems to be affecting endgame. BvS did try (maybe too hard) to be different, but endgame just comes across as formulaic and deeply flawed.
Marvel have at least stayed true to their formula though, while Warner Bros didn't have it in them to stick to the original vision. If they had stuck with Zack Snyder's planned 5-movie arc then we might have got Thanos AND Darkseid in the same year, which might've made both cinematic universes more interesting.