Life-long comic-book fan, what's not to love? A lot!

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2018)

I've grown up in the Marvel (and DC) universes, since a kid, I've read everything in comic book form, having my favourites of course. Thor: Ragnarok began a new trend in tongue-in-cheek Marvelism, submitting to humour while ignoring the basic qualities of the characters.
Infinity War was a disappointment because it paid no heed to the capabilities of the characters. Going back to Thor as an example, we have the God of Thunder enduring the blast of a neutron star while in Ragnarok, he couldn't even extract himself from a magnetic chair.
Back to Infinity, we find Dr Strange almost without a single trick up his sleeve and my all-time favourite, Vision, who couldn't hold his end up against any of Thanos' minions.
The Scarlet Witch is supposed to distort the fabric of reality yet she choose only to move herself and objects around, giving very little evidence of the great power she had that suddenly allowed her to destroy an infinity stone with one hand while holding Thanos back with the other.
Having achieved his goal of collecting all of the infinity stones, he then blows a fuse, where did that come from and where was he sent? Was it back in time to his home to retire in splendid comfort or was he stuck in a fantasy realm created by the fusing stones?
And then, the final disintegration of many of the heroes, apparently at random, why Spiderman and Dr Strange and not Ironman? Why the Black Panther and not Captain America? Why Bucky and so on....
Did I enjoy the film? Yes, of course I did - it's part of the universe I know and is pure unadulterated fantasy, as it should be. I'm just sad that the makers didn't see fit to honour the legacy of Stan Lee and the Marvel artists of by-gone years.