More cohesive than Infinity War, but still not very good

Rating: 5/10 (29 May 2019)

Infinity War can really only be described as a complete mess. It wasn't so much an entire film, but the first acts to 7 different films, followed by an unnecessarily large final battle. So in that regard Endgame was a significant improvement, as it was at least one film. But looking at the position Marvel put themselves in at the end of IW, they had really painted themselves into a corner.
Before seeing Endgame I remember thinking "the only way this is going to go,is they will get the stones, snap, and bring everyone back." But I was pleasantly surprised when Thanos was killed within a few minutes of the film, but then as soon as timetravel was brought up, my hopes of something original were destroyed.
And bring on the typical timetravel stuff; they go back to events from previous films for a few nostalgic laughs, they get the stones but *gasp* something goes wrong. Two hours later and Thanos is back from the past, the stupidly large battle takes place, Iron Man heroically sacrifices himself, and then the ending is way too long and dragged out.
I really didn't know what I expected, and I know I will sound very pretentious to whoever reads this, and to be honest I probably am.
But as Marvel have managed to put out great films in the past, the first Iron Man, Black Panther, Winter Soilder, it's a bit sad seeing this era end with an overly maximalistic "more is more" and "more is EVEN more" film like this one. Still, I had a few good chuckles over fat Thor.