Russo Brothers, what did you guys do?

Rating: 1/10 (1 May 2019)

What have you done? What were you thinking? 21 movies in and this is the best you can come up with?
I'm not sure where to start. Have you worked so long on all these films that you got burnt out? Do you hate the Hulk and Thor characters so much that you would do what you did to them?
Time travel to fix things is just lazy writing. Plain and simple. Lazy, unimaginative, boring, and it will always fail to make sense.
Let's just start at the beginning of the film. It's the best part other than how did Captain Marvel finds Tony but we can let that slide. It really does not matter.
Five years later was your first mistake. By doing this you have shown the world is in collapse. People can not move on. Garbage everywhere, everything is in decay. Only Tony Stark has seen to be able to move on and have a child and be happy. Great. This is where it gets bad.
You have made Tony Stark completely selfish again. Just like his first film. He never wants to sacrifice anything of his own to make things right. You gave him a daughter and the second you did that, the second you did that, you had to take her away. You had no choice if you wanted to make it a good movie. That is what he was going to have to lose to fix what had been done by Thanos. But you do not even make it an option.
He stipulates that they can all go back in time as long as they don't change the last five years! Why?! The whole world is in mourning. The world sucks. How many people killed themselves after the snap? How many people lost everything they own after the snap? How many children lost their parents? How many parents lost their children? But Tony is happy, so, that's all that matters. Horrible. You made me hate Tony Stark.
Next point. Why do they need a spaceship to go to Thanos? Thor has Stormbreaker. Stormbreaker can make a bifrost bridge to anywhere! Thor can go anywhere he wants now. Anywhere! No spaceship needed.
Thanos? What did you do to the villain you made so great in the previous film. He has five years in retirement and he's ready to die? Let me explain something to you guys. People do not spend their entire lives to achieve something only to want to die five minutes after they achieve it.
Thanos. Poor Thanos. What you did. Thanos would never, ever just sat there and let himself be killed. He knew when he did the snap that people would come after him. He would have been ready. He would have never of destroyed the stones. They would be his greatest protection.
Now that you killed Thanos and you destroyed the stones, you put yourselves in a box. How can we fix this? I know, time travel. Quantum Realm time travel. Side note, Janet Van Dyne (Mrs Pym) was in the Quantum Realm for 30 years and she aged 30 years. We'll forget about that movie though.
Then you guys think we'll go back and get all the stones from earlier movies. Wrong! You don't have to. All you needed to do was go back and get the Tesseract and the time stone. The Tesseract to travel the galaxy. (Which you really don't need because of Stormbreaker but never mind that) and the time stone to fix the time line. The infinity stones are much more powerful than you guys think or realize. Watch the first Guardians of the Galaxy film if you do not know what I mean.
You guys made the script so much harder on yourselves than you had to be. Maybe this is what happens when people spend too much time on one type of characters.
Did you guys forget who the characters are? Captain America does not look at his own ass and make a comment. He does not care. It is not in his personality at all in any other film. He does not have any vanity. It is one of the reasons that Peggy Carter likes him.
Thor. Poor, poor, Thor. Your lazy writing here is unforgivable. The fat Thor was funny for 15 seconds and then it was irritating for the rest of the film. You should have never of done it. Thor should have been traveling the nine realms with stormbreaker, trying to help those realms recover from the snap. That's what Thor would have been doing. Thor would have tried to do something productive. All of Thor's previous movies meant nothing to you. The character meant nothing to you. How Chris Hemsworth played that part without crying in every scene is beyond me. I hope he was devastated to what you did to his character.
The Hulk? Do you guys even know who he is? You hid him in the infinity wars, it was okay. I got it. It made it different, but not to bring him back or to bring him in the way you did here, is beyond belief. We needed to see that transformation. We needed to see how Banner and the Hulk became one. Okay, forget that, you did let us see Banner in the Hulk form but we never got to see a smart Hulk get revenge on Thanos. A smart Hulk who knows how to fight because he is now smart because you wrote him that he is now smart. Wasted opportunity.
Vision by the way. No resurrection? No mention at all. Really?
Hawkeye? There's a guy that enjoyed the last five years. Maybe Tony would like to lose his family and not to want to change the last five years.
Another problem. After the new snap, when you brought everyone back. Hawkeye's wife came back with her cell phone? He has her cell phone charged and on the kitchen counter waiting for her to come back? Did the cell phone company's service survive the snap? Are you telling me that Clint kept the same cell phone plan for five years? Think about that for a second. And this not something I realized after the film. I realized it as it a occurred, sitting in my seat in the theater. Bad writing.
Romanoff. She never needed to die because you never needed the Soul stone and two things on that: When Captain America returns the the Soul stone, did he see the Red Skull? That would have been interesting. And second when he returns the Soul Stone, Romanoff comes back too! Another thing you guys did not think that through though.
Ant-man? I love Paul Rudd, but Ant man was useless. His daughter does not miss her Mom though? I guess she is like Tony and does not want to undo the last five years.
No Fury and Captain Marvel reunion scene? Why not? Don't really care that it was not there, but hey I should at least mention it.
Back to Captain America. He would never had stayed in the past and married Peggy. He would not have taken her away from the man she winds up marrying and having kids with. He would never had done that in a million years. He would not have abandoned Bucky. Bucky has no family or friends. None. Steve would not have left hm. Steve would not have left all the people that he had met after the snap. Those people still need help.
Let me explain your own script to you. When they reverse the snap and everybody reappears after a five year gap. When Peter Parker goes back to school, half his class is gone. They have all aged and graduated. Make sure you have that in the next Spiderman movie. Plus, the people that came back, did they go back to work? The jobs were still there? How about all the houses that have begun to rot? Who repaired them all? What about people who moved and got remarried? Yeah, let's not remove the last five years. Lets just leave it all intact.
What should have happened is what happens in Marvel movies. It should have been fun. It should have made sense. Captain Marvel, who is really the only one able to hold any infinity stones,should of, with the help of all the other characters, gone back in time. With the use of the time stone and the tesseract. She shows up when Thor hits Thanos with Stormbreaker at the end of Infinity Wars and she cuts off Thanos's arm before he does the snap or takes the glove from him. Then Thor kills Thanos or lets him live for another day and Captain Marvel uses the Tesseract to open a portal and disappear before anyone even gets to ask her a question. Timeline in tack. Captain Marvel returns the Soul stone to a very unhappy Red Skull who is now trapped on Vormir again and Gamora returns from the Soul stone.
Thanos could have been alive and chasing all the other characters. Trying to stop them from undoing everything he had done. Better yet, he should have had an arc and realized that what he had done did not go as planned and in the end he lets them win.
Either way the movie should have ended with Tony giving up his daughter, sacrificing his new family to give everyone else their families back.
After all is done. Captain America could have just retired and passed the mattel along. Tony would have retired too after seeing how great life is with Pepper and then tried to make his daughter again.
All of these endings are better than what you did but they are also not perfect. I just don't have all the time in the world to think up better ways to make other peoples films.
What I do have time though, is to go to movies and enjoy them from time to time and for the last 11 years I have enjoyed most Marvel films. Sadly to say but I think I am done with Marvel. I feel as if you guys, the Russo Brothers have killed it all. All the build up, all the time spending with these characters just so you could change them and ruin them the way you did. I feel as if they have died.
I know my opinion is just that, my opinion. I feel that this movie is this generations Return of the Jedi. I loved Jedi when it came out. 5 years later, I hated it. End Game will be that movie for these young people. They love it now, but give it a few years and we will see.
This I guess is my obituary for the mcu. I felt so empty after seeing this movie. I felt like it was all a waste. I felt like my friends had died or left me and were not coming back. I needed to get this all out of my system and just say good-bye.
I apologize for my poor grammar. If I could get the Time Stone, I would use it to go back to school and actually listen to my English teacher.
This is all a very sad ending to what could have been a great era of movies.