An Honest Review from a Non-Marvel Fan

Rating: 7/10 (7 May 2018)

So first I'll tell you this. I never loved Marvel movies, so this is unbiased, and more critical of Infinity War as a film, not as just a Marvel movie. If you are a hardcore Marvel fan, and you for some reason did not see it opening weekend, you should still see it despite it's not being the best of Marvel. It is not an objectively terrible movie, it just isn't really as strong as some other Marvel productions. But you certainly will like it being a fan of Marvel, but probably not if you aren't into the style/genre.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
Now to get deeper, this movie will make you leave the theater thinking, "What the hell?" This goes for Marvel fans and everyone else. Despite my not loving Superhero movies, I have seen all of the Avengers Films, and most of the major Marvel films of the past 10 years. I've seen the Captain America Movies, the Iron Man movies, the Thor movies (not the Thor sequel because it was supposed to be god awful), etc. This movie though was different. Although the Avengers movies do rely on having all of the Marvel star heroes unite, this one tried something even more insane, which was having pretty much every single Marvel franchise of the past 10 years combine (with a few exceptions), which was wayyy more than in the past. And frankly, too much for a two and a half hour movie (although if the solution were to extend this movie I would have walked out or fell asleep).
I favor the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise over the other Marvel franchises. And I feel that way not because of the character depth, but I like its style and genre. Marvel movies do this. They change the genre in the different franchises to make them suit different kinds of people. Guardians of the Galaxy was a fun adventure saga with lots of colors and effects backed by an epic mixtape. Captain America was war movie style. Deadpool (not in Infinity War) is comedy, and one of the few of their movies to receive the R rating. And these genres are good alone, but kinda weird to combine. Guardians of the Galaxy for example totally does not fit in to Infinity War. The sole reason it does is the Gamora Thanos connection, which was clearly formed in Guardians of the Galaxy for the sole reason to get that Thanos connection in, because everyone has to have some connection to Thanos and therefore the Infinity Stones to be in this movie. And I'm not saying they should have been removed from this movie and left a standalone. They were necessary for the plot, but only because Marvel made them necessary. Saying that, Marvel does deserve credit for making almost every franchise in Infinity War relevant somehow. Black Panther though wasn't really needed, they only really used Wakanda as a battlefront, and their technology was used on Vision, but they could have gotten the tech elsewhere.
Now, about that ending. This ending is so completely far fetched that while leaving the movie, one of the theater attendants said something like, "I'm sorry that was so disappointing." Even though it was "sad" to see so many characters cease to exist, remember, even though Infinity War is symbolizing the end of a lot of characters (contracts), there is another Avengers movie in post production right now, so we can assume that it will have a happy ending of sorts, because unfortunately Hollywood doesn't have the balls anymore to leave a multi-billion dollar franchise on a sad note. Not that I want the characters dead, but my call is that everyone comes back to life again, leaving on a happy note, which is kind of clichÃ©, and it bothers me. My prediction is the remaining Avengers hunt down Thanos one final time, with the goal of retrieving his glove, and destroying the Infinity Stones, but first they use the time stone to reverse time, and bring everyone back to life again (probably discounting Gamora and Loki; I swear if Loki comes back to life one more time...) But anyways, the movie was fine, but just a bit overboard on the characters, a bit too long, and overhyped.