Infinity War in 6 Easy Steps!

Rating: 7/10 (18 August 2018)

Breakdown of Infinity War:
1. Token action scene.
2. Fun contrasting character mash up.
3. Overlong dialogue explaining the complex technicalities of the plot.
4. Thanos makes a character decide between giving up their infinity stone or seeing a loved one die. (so original, right?)
5. Repeat steps one through four, until Thanos has all 6 stones.
6. Cool cliffhanger ending.
The Action, aside from the scenes with Thor, is easily forgettable.
The character team ups are fun but not nearly as fun as they could or should have been as there's too many moving parts to give any of the scenes a moment to breathe and let the characters simply banter with each other. This is mostly due to-
The characters constantly having to explain the plot to each other when they team up which totally kills the fun of mashing the characters up in the first place.
The only stakes in this movie are "do this or die, or, if not you, your loved one will die", which is fine to do once in a film but the writers fall back on this dramatic gimmick time and time again and cling onto it until the bitter end.
Did I mention earlier that this movie was repetitive? Because yeah it's repetitive.
Aside from all that, the ending was definitely a surprise and leaves you hungry to know what happens next. And hopefully in part two they will have more breathing room for real character drama and good old fashion avenger's banter.
This is what I would call a "one and done" type of Marvel movie and feels more like a steppingstone for the story rather than a full-fledged satisfying movie in its own right.