Fits in with the other films, but doesn't exceed them.

Rating: 7/10 (11 August 2018)

Just a quickie. This film does well to hold up the standard of MCU films up until this points. The Russo Brothers to well to emulate the different feel of each and every character from other films like the Guardians. Most of the characters were pretty useless all in all. Cap did next to nothing, and to think this was meant to be the last film on his contact. There was a ton of action which, at the end, felt like noise. It feels like they pushed to have every single hero here whilst most were unnecessary additions. My main gripe is the deaths: Spoilers for Ant Man 2 btw. I realise that half the population on earth is about 3.5 billion but I think killing off pretty much everyone apart from the original team and Rocket was a bit overkill and convenient. All the Guardians are dead as well and the entire Ant Man team apart from Scott becuase the snap doesn't affect the quantum realm. Even Fury and Hill are gone. It's essentially just a big set up for Avengers 4, which is what annoys me. This film was hyped up for ages and as a fan of comic books and comic book movies in general I was really bloody excited but then it ended up being a huge set up with no real consequences. It's 100% obvious that anyone that turned to dust will be back. Holland is already filming Spiderman Far From Home, all the Guardians are filming Vol. 3, this was pretty much confirmed when Bautista threatened to quit over the Gunn controversy. Jackson and Smulders are filming Far From Home. It was annoying to say the least they these deaths were bigged up when they're all fake. Disney does not like to take risks. Loki dying is a grey area because I don't believe they would kill their most profitable villain and he's died before. Vision I believe is pretty much dead. Gamora is back for Guardians 3 so I'm unsure about her. We're all fairly certain that time travel will be involved in the next Avengers as well and one theory is that Shuri figures out a way to destroy the Infinity gems (yes I say gems because that's what they should be called) because she basically figured it out in IW, they go back in time and destroy all the stones before Thanos can get them which basically means Vision won't be coming back unless some sort of time paradox happens. Either way, the rate of the ones left alive is up in the air ironically. Basically, this film surfs on action and emotion but since the emotion is, for want of a better word, short-lived when you realise nothing sad actually happened, it basically works on action which echoes that of previous films. The emotion was high, despite as short as I felt it, especially Spiderman, but, in my honest opinion, I am going to wait until Avengers 4 to give see if this was a good or bad set up and if this was worth it. I hope it is.