Thanos is the best villain in years, but... MAJOR SPOILERS

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2018)

Thanos surprised me with his range, he isn't just the big bad, there is some genuine pathos here and Josh Brolin is fantastic here.
Pretty much the movie was going great until they went to Wakanda, where the last half hour or so of the film really fell flat for me. I would've liked to have seen the big battle take place somewhere real, a real world city, not a magic city I don't care about, might as well have been in Kun Lun.
I would also like to have seen more shots of what Thanos did with that last fatal snap, not just to the heroes and to that one street in New York after the credits, but across the planet and even the universe at large. Trillions died, but it felt more like dozens, there should have been something like when Ego tried to do the same thing with his blobby plant things in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, where you see Xandar and Eath and other crazy planets getting messed up. I realize that this is movie is part one of two, but it still needs to stand alone, and the consequences of the most significant finger snapping in comic book history should have been overwhelmingly displayed.
Additionally, I'm afraid that Marvel has overplayed their hand here. I expected a bloodbath but there is no way they will leave THIS half of their heroes dead, as I should point out that most of the ones that kicked it were NEW to the universe (Really? You expect me to believe SPIDERMAN, Black Panther, and Doctor Strange are all dead after only one movie each?? (Not to mention almost the entire cast of GoG)
As such you can't take the consequences seriously, which detracts from the narrative, in particular the death of Gamora, which at the time was a tear jerker and really shone the light on Thanos' humanity.
Now I feel like they will just bring her back with the rest somehow in the second movie. Boo.
And just to nitpick, the new Iron-Man suit is stupid, Iron-Man has always been a heavy hitter because of how SOLID he is, so suddenly replacing his suit with nano-particle Transforers 4 bullcrap was just awful.
Sadly, Thor's axe also ends up kind of sucking; as far as names go "Mjolnir" is far better than the generic "Stormbreaker" and in terms of appearance, the wooden handle is just too big and cartoonish, though I loved that Groot made it for him.
In the end, while the film was not a brutal disappointment as I feared, it is still a disappointment.
7/10 Stars