Good, But Not Great

Rating: 7/10 (28 April 2018)

The movie overall was pretty good, but at times there were some plot holes and there were parts where I felt it was just too much. The beginning of the movie especially I found confusing as it started off with this heartbreaking moment that left audience members in shock and still trying to process what had happened. Then straight afterwards, it goes into a normal scene and we're already trying to make light of the situation with jokes in the movie. This, I didn't appreciate and because of it I missed about 20 minutes still trying to get over the first bit.
Some characters were stronger than they should have been and some characters weren't strong enough. At times it seems Thanos was almost beaten by the weakest characters but then at other times his strength powered right over some really strong and powerful characters. The first problem, going back to the first scene was the characterisation of Loki. Loki is a god, almost as powerful as Thor practically and he choses to use a knife to fight Thanos even though in earlier movies he is depicted as super smart? That wasn't right.
When Gamora is being killed by Thanos we're expected to feel sympathy for Thanos or agree with what he is doing but for me personally I thought that was unforgiveable. Thanos is a real bad guy and a great villain obviously, but some of these moments were just kind of thrown in there without further explanation which made the story a bit wonky.
The ending of the movie was a cliff hanger, but it was kind of made obvious that some of those who died were not going to stay permanently dead such as Black Panther and Spider-Man who only just started their franchises to great success.
Overall, the movie was nice to watch, at times it was hard to watch, but it is a good movie. It is not however, better than the first Avengers movie. But it is better than Age of Ultron.