Spectacular and forgettable

Rating: 6/10 (5 August 2018)

It's impossible not to merit Infinity War, the fact that a movie could have this many characters and stay coherant is admirable, and the effects and actors are phenominal throughout - I truly believed I was seeing these heroes fight in these otherworldy locations.
The best parts of the movie are when the characters are just talking to each other - the wit and the charm still shines through in a movie this jam packed.
On the other hand, the action is forgettable and boring, and basically pointless. There's no tension - you as an audience member know that the avengers aren't going to defeat thanos in a fight, so why is so much of the run time devoted to character after character punch him? The final battle is the typical avengers noise fest where you know none of the characters are in danger and nothing of note is going to happen.
As a result, Infinity War fails to get me invested or interested, there's no emotional core to the movie so everything is just noise. The ending is predictable, what will happen in the hopefully better and more focused next movie is predictable, objectively you have to give the movie credit for managing to stay coherant but in the end most of it fell flat to me.
Packed with boring action, writing shortcuts, inconsistencies, emotional moments that fall flat because the film is so desperate to move onto the next plot point, and pushing some of the best characters to the side, I won't be revisiting this one any time soon.