Avengers: Infinity War

Rating: 5/10 (11 April 2019)

Very visually and audibly noisy, much like Spielberg's Ready Player One, but the characters (which for the most part are already established) allow for some degree of investment. However the over-long runtime, extremely fake looking CGI, and the quantity-over-quality scale creates an overstuffed movie. The perpetual break-neck pace could work in a shorter movie but here, it just doesn't. Not to mention the whole movie feeling inconsequential when you know that half of the major characters who were "killed off" are coming back in the next one so any dramatic elements of Infinity War are instantly rendered nil. The most egregious flaw is that nothing about the characters really changed, they lost loved ones, but nothing about the characters themselves changed.
5/10