Avengers: Infinity War Truly Delivers On Its Ten Year Buildup

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2018)

I wasn't a Marvel fan until I watched The Avengers in 2012. I had seen tidbits of Iron Man and Iron Man 2, I had watched Thor in the movie theaters, and I hadn't seen Captain America: The First Avenger but these films, while they were enjoyable to a certain extent, didn't make me incredibly happy. The Avengers did. At that time there had never been a superhero ensemble like it before and it was positively incredible. Jump forward six years later and Avengers: Infinity War has completely wowed me like The Avengers once did.
This movie isn't just spectacular because it's got nearly two dozen heroes in it but because Thanos was the villain worth waiting for. He arrives, gets an Infinity Gauntlet sized grip on your emotions and your fears for the heroes, and doesn't let go until the end of the movie. I walked away from this film completely stunned and I mean that in the best way possible. Marvel has created a superhero film that's going to be extremely hard to replicate in any way, shape, or form in the future for other superhero flicks and I just couldn't be happier with the experience I had.
Now I watched this film twice and the only reason why I don't have it as a solid 10 out of 10 is because the movie is VERY long. When you watch the film the first time the story is so compelling you don't even notice the two hour and thirty-two minute run time but after the second time I watched it felt like I had seen a really epic superhero marathon. That doesn't make the movie bad. It just isn't a movie I can rewatch over and over again like some of the other Marvel films (Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: Ragnarok) and that is it its only fault. It's definitely one of my favorite superhero movies of all time though and I highly recommend you see it before it leaves theaters.