Paint by the numbers

Rating: 6/10 (1 May 2018)

Good action, good special effects, and a terrible stupid and predictable plot. You know a movie is not good storywise when you keep looking at your watch to know how much time is left before it ends. And that's what I did when watching Infinity War, because the movie was so absolutely predictable that it got tedious. Also, it had not one, but TWO instances of one of the cliches I hate the most, the "save a loved one, let the world die" cliche. And both are announced from miles away. When Vision makes the correct decision of committing suicide by having the mind stone destroyed and everyone is stupidly against it and when Dr. Strange says he will let Tony or Peter die rather than surrender the time stone. Sure, let half the universe die (including many of your loved ones) so you don't have to see THIS ONE PERSON die or kill them. And no, there's no circumstance when this will ever be right. In the case of Dr. Strange, just to make the NEXT movie even more predictable, it's clear that giving up his stone was part of a plan to make the one future where Thanos is defeated come true. That means I already know in broad terms what's going to happen in the next movie, especially with Fury calling in Captain Marvell in the post-credit scene.
Added to that is how terrible the fight scenes were. Not in that they were badly choreographed or executed, but in how stupid they were. I'll just mention two instances, so keep from being repetitive.
1. Dr. Strange or Wong could have beaten Thanos and his minions instantly. Just materialize a teleport opening around their necks and close it. Problem solved. This is as stupid as not using the luck potion or the time-travel amulet in Harry Potter to defeat Voldemort.
2. Why the hell is Thanos wasting time punching people after he got the reality stone? Just do what he did to Drax and Mantis to everyone. Turn all of them at once to confetti or cotton candy. Wish the mind stones off Vision's head and into his hand. And so on and so forth. This, in its turn, is as stupid as Green Lanterns making those constructs of theirs because writers think they look cool, when they should just disintegrate their enemies using their allegedly omnipotent rings of power. Only limited to your willpower and imagination still gives you a lot of leeway to use the best possible option: death rays.
In short, as I expected, Marvel people have ran out of ideas. Now I see clearly why Thor: Ragnarok was a comedy. If they had tried to make a serious dramatic movie, it would ended up being as boring as Infinity War.