Closing Walls and Ticking Clocks

Rating: 10/10 (27 April 2018)

I can't say much without ruining this film so instead I will just give a very vague overview of the movie with no plot points and no spoiling will be done. As you will probably have guessed this movie has been anticipated since 2012 when the first Avengers had hit the screen. This sort of thing had never been done before on the big screen with a group of characters. It was the turning point and issued in the Golden age of Marvel comic book movies.
Six years later we finally get to see Thanos and his search for the infinity stones. Thanos is probably the best Marvel villain since Loki and we see why he does terrible things. His reasons are actually quite justified in a sick sort of way and play on the human idea of overpopulation.
For a film with so many characters I think the story does a great job of giving screen time to all however some of the characters do things that are out of character a bit. The film does drag on a little too much and has the habit of sometimes sacrificing a good character development scene for action.

Saying that, the action sequences are probably the best in a long while from any marvel movie. Because this is the serious Marvel movie as well the comedy does suffer quite a bit and I does kind of kill the scene for me when a joke is said as it is not really in keeping with the seriousness of the film.
The score is very great as well and they even threw in a new guardian of the galaxy song to announce when they are on screen. The score is pretty textbook slow piano stuff and the do use a lot of the dramatic violin which has become a bit of a clichÃ© at this point. Overall every technical aspect of this movie is flawless. The CGI works really well and it is everything we come to expect from a Marvel movie.
This movie feels like an ending in every sense of the word. Things transpire and characters do irreversible things. It really felt like I was watching the peak of superhero movie franchises and certainly a change in the status quo of Marvel movies. Although I enjoyed the movie very much, I couldn't help thinking "where do we go from here?" People have been saying for a while that superhero movies have had their day and infinity wars feels like a swan song.