Marvel's "Holy Fail"

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2019)

Costing over $300 million to make, Marvel was setting up for the biggest cinematic experience they have ever created. They had a combined budget of over $1 billion making it one of the most expensive films ever made. As a Marvel fan, these numbers make it very exciting when preparing to watch their film, but with this particular film, $1 billion wasn't quite enough.
The Avengers, including Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Spiderman (Tom Holland), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), and many more heroes from the Marvel Universe, unite to take down their most powerful enemy yet Thanos (Josh Brolin). Thanos is attempting to collect all six of the infinity stones in his plan to inflict his will on reality. The fate of existence itself has become uncertain as everything the Avengers have ever fought for leads to this battle.
Marvel diehard or just an interested fan, everyone has a favorite superhero. When they first started the "Avengers" series there was an abundance of controversy surrounding the idea that pouring all those heroes into one movie would not be successful. Disregarding the hate, Marvel went straight for its intended film and created "The Avengers" in 2012. Grossing over $1.5 billion in earnings you could say they were right. With the pool of well loved heroes fighting side by side avengers decided to run with it, leading us to where we are now, The Avengers: Infinity War. The first problem with this film is it was clearly a shot to wring out as much cash as they could from the fan base they have created. With success of Ryan Coogler's "The Black Panther" and many other upcoming heroes the avengers turned into an overloaded group of heroes from all over the universe. People come to see the movies to see their favorite superhero in battle but with 500 other characters running around it draws the weight and storyline away from those specific character. It seems as if they just piled all the characters into one movie to please everyone for early box office sales.
The fact that everyone has their favorite hero, brings light to a problem with the storyline. In the film, Thanos has a goal of eliminating half of the population of the universe. Successfully obtaining the final infinity stone, with the snap of a finger, he eliminates half the population. In doing so he wipes out some pretty prominent heroes including Tom Holland's "Spiderman" Although Marvel did not fail to make Spiderman's final goodbye dramatic, it is still controversial. With the amazing success of the film "Spiderman: Homecoming" previously released, Tom Holland and the new Spiderman was gaining some steam. As a huge spiderman fan myself, it was extremely tough to see him go as it was for the millions of other fans. It is understandable to kill off a hero for dramatic purposes but why multiple characters that people come to view the movies for in the first place. Leaving Spiderman and other heroes out of the next movie could cause more people to be less exhilarated about the film.
Another problem Marvel seemed to have in their film was their weakness in capitalizing on climactic scenes. One scene that sticks out in particular and received plenty of backlash from the masses, was the battle on Titan. This battle was closest the Avengers came to defeating Thanos by taking the gauntlet and all six infinity stones off his hand. Iron man, Spiderman, Doctor Strange, and a variety of others finally knock Thanos out cold and attempt to pull the glove off his massive hand. Star Lord, a more comedic character, enters and brings his emotions to the table eventually slapping Thanos in the face and waking him up. The heroes were literally a fingernail away from saving the entire universe and succeeding in defeating Thanos. The whole entire movie led to that one intense scene and its disrupted by a more comedic character slapping Thanos in the face. Although the colors and CGI editing done on the planet Titan was impeccable, they failed to create the intended dramatic and tension filled scene of the team failing.
Although the box office numbers say otherwise, Marvel didn't provide the film millions of their fans were looking for. The Avengers isn't what it once was and seems to be a way to make money off their ever growing fan base. With their billion dollar budgets you should expect amazing scenery and technology from the movie. They lack the production of the big dramatic scenes we long for and in doing so killed off heroes people come to see in the first place.