Enjoyable but a Disjointed Mess

Rating: 6/10 (7 May 2018)

Marvel have embarked on a massive project to link up many movies over a decade to a grand finale featuring all of the main heroic characters of the movies. However, the inifinity stones are more of a thread linking the movies than a story in itself. The story of the stones is what infinity wars is about. So it's a new story but populated with characters already developed so the character development is that of Thanos, the villain. Josh Brolin is brilliant as Thanos but his back story is a biit lame, perhaps as a result of distillation from the comics, but still for a movie of this scale a bit thin. All of the Marvel characters are involved and it is just too much for the film, giving it an air of contrivance, Comic relief is probvided largely by the Guardians of the Galaxy even that is not so fresh anymore. On the whole it is enjoyable family fluff but falls in many respects due to ridiculous levels of suspension of disbelief.