Rivals "X-Men Last Stand" for worst superhero movie ever.

Rating: 1/10 (9 September 2018)

Let's start with the Zero of the movie; Thanos, AKA, Bane-with-no-brain, AKA, the son of Brutus from the Popeye cartoons. This guy's dream is to kill half of all the sentient beings in the Universe so there are enough resources to go around for everyone left; so he's basically the Joker on stupid pills. First of all, that idea is copied from a more intelligent version of a similar concept from "Watchmen." Second, are we really supposed to believe that Thanos is so dumb that he does not notice when populations of living things are cut back, that they grow back stronger, thicker and more robust? So what is he going to do; wipe out half the universe every 100 years as populations grow back? The stupidity of this concept is staggering. But it's really nothing compared to the banality of the character itself. Thanos is a guy who shows up magically in every scene with the same smug grin on his face then struts around goes; "Ha Ha Ha, I'm too strong for you, weaklings, look at my giant arms and manly rock-like chin." He's like the villain of some 1950's cartoon and he is more one-dimensional than Paper Mario. But it gets better, he is invincible, seems to know everything, and has some way to get around every superhero's powers. He's like a character written by a little kid; completely infallible and totally, unbelievably boring.
And then there are the "Infinity Stones." So these totally unexplainably super-mega powerful stones have been floating around pawn shops across the universe for billions of years and no one ever thought to get them all together before Thanos? Wow, I guess he is a genius. Seems like the history of that universe would really just be a long line of big-chin jerks like Thanos who got all the stones together and used the godlike power to bully everyone else around. Of course Thanos is the first person to ever think of building giant Michael Jackson style glove for one hand to be able to hold all the stones. I guess that's what makes him such a revolution. These stones could have been developed into something meaningful, but this movie basically wastes them as the 'stamp collection of the Gods."
Fortunately there are also Superheros. Well, not really. Essentially none of them have any relevant powers or cleverness in this movie and they never do anything that makes any difference. In fact, they are pretty much interchangeable. Mostly they just all fight the henchmen of Thanos, who are inexplicably unbeatable and even more boring and bland than Thanos. The most unforgivable misuse of a character is Rocket, who barely has any lines and almost none of them are remotely funny.
Lastly, there is the blah ending that is so unbelievably ridiculous that they are going to have to spend the next 6 movies dancing around it like the X-Men series had to do with "Last Stand." Actually, it's not really an ending at all, the movie just completely gives up on making any sense and in the last 15 minutes gives away all credibility. The final scenes are like an epiphany of disappointment, where you realize that the whole movie has just been leading up to the realization that the folks who made this are just incompetent and have no business making movies. Another perfect example of a franchise created by someone with vision being turned over to a crew of accountants. I would say this movie is a complete dog, but I like dogs.