Intensely Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (14 July 2019)

I wasn't huge on the MCU until recently, maybe a year ago. I had seen a few MCU movies but I truly saw the potential of the MCU when I saw "The Avengers." This movie blew me away, seeing Ironman, Hulk, Thor, etc. in the same movie was just baffling. That's when my liking of the MCU began, I started watching all of the MCU movies, hoping to get the same amount of excitement The Avengers gave me. I was often disappointed, movies like Ironman 2&3, Thor the Dark World, and Captain America the First Avenger just didn't please me like I wanted them to. Don't get me wrong, there were good movies, I liked movies like Antman, Doctor Strange, and Guardians of the Galaxy, but I didn't consider them incredible or mind blowing. Then came the Captain America sequels, movies that truly blew me away, I consider both of them to be the best in the MCU (they definitely deserve higher praise than Infinity War or Endgame). I went into Avengers Age of Ultron expecting to be blown away, but was severely disappointed, mad even. Then came Infinity War, the movie follow up to one of the most popular comic lines of all time. Although it wasn't very faithful to its comic counterpart, I thought it was a good movie (not as good as Winter Soldier it Civil War, but good). I thought I would like Infinity War more after its sequel came out because this movie was really just a setup for the next movie. My hype was huge for Endgame, the trailer was awesome, and it would complete the Avengers saga. I went into the theater ecstatic, and left kinda confused. I didn't understand, I was waiting for the awesome sequel to Infinity War and after I left I felt like I was still looking. The movie isn't bad by any means, but I feel like it destroyed my dreams. The movie itself has no reason being 3 hours long. Just take out all of the boring dialogue, that will skim down the movie into about 2 hours. Most of the exposition is delivered through dialogue, a lot of boring movies nowadays suffer from the same problem. The pacing is exhaustingly slow, it's just an excuse to draw out the run time. This movie suffers from the same problem many MCU movies suffer from- a lack of focus. I think of the MCU movies I like; Antman is a movie that knows how absurd it is, and it doesn't differ from this viewpoint. It's like the movie Napoleon Dynamite, if they stopped halfway through this movie and had a long, heartfelt talk, that would just be strange and might even ruin the movie. Now, you have a MCU movie which are usually filled with humor and great action, but ever five minutes they stop and have a long, serious conversation. And the humor in this movie completely falls flat, I laughed once- whenever Thor was playing Fortnite, the idea was just so stupid and absurd I couldn't help but laugh. I get it, they tried and give this movie a serious tone, but you can't just abandon this serious tone all the time for the sake of a joke (that will most likely fall flat). Captain America Civil War handled a serious tone very well. Think about Civil War, I guarantee you aren't thinking of a specific joke, you're thinking of a grand fight scene or a philosophical debate between Captain America and Tony Stark. And overall, the main gimmick of the movie the means to which they attempt to get the stones back doesn't make sense, they try and explain it, but even then it was difficult to keep up with (IMO). They could just go back and get more of the resource they need to power the "you know what." The only reason for having limited resources is to heighten the stakes. Also, this movie ruined my favorite part of Infinity War- Thanos. He had such a villainous presence and a plan that you could understand, at times his plan didn't even sound that bad. So why.... just why..... why did you have to go and make him a stereotypical, lifeless, one-dimensional villain. The fact they ruined him, infuriates me beyond speech. This movie left such a bad taste in my mouth, and I blame myself for how much I dislike this movie, I gave it so much hype.