Liked but not Loved

Rating: 7/10 (27 April 2018)

I'm really mixed to positive on this one. It's hard to explain my feelings about the movie without spoiling it, so I'll say this: the things that this movie does well, it does it REALLY well. Thanos was great as villain (his motives, not so much), the action scenes were good, I liked most of the character interactions, there were some emotional scenes that were done well, and a few things will transpire that you won't see coming, which was very exciting. After Thor's last atrocious solo outing (Ragnarok), I didn't really care much for his character but this time around, the Russo's brought the thunder (pun intended); he was my favorite of all the Avengers in this film (even though there were some still some residual Ragnarok traits, I'm willing to forgive them). The things that it does bad, it does REALLY bad. A lot of the humor was contrived; some of those emotional/dramatic scenes were ruined by poorly timed jokes, something that Ragnarok and GotGv2 suffered from immensely. Towards the middle of the film, the scenes seemed to kind of jump all over the place but that's just a small nitpick on my part. Certain characters were handled in a way that really bothered me, but I can't divulge on that point without spoilers. Lastly, the ending just fell flat for me; I understand what they were trying to do with the ending and it DID work to some degree, but for everything that happened in the movie and for it to end the way it did...it just didn't sit well with me. Overall, I thought the movie was good...the Russo Brothers are excellent directors (Winter Soldier is still, by far, my favorite MCU film) and I'm ready to see what they have in store for Avengers 4!!! 3.5/5 Stars