An epic failure at script writing, kills a would be great film

Rating: 7/10 (2 May 2018)

Let me start by saying that no superhero movie is supposed to be realistic. We all know that. Still, script writers, and comic books writers too struggle, to make the story feel as if it was real, otherwise, none would relate to the story. In order to get this real feeling, the emotional base of the story is crucial, the character development must be first class, if these two work, we've got a film we can emphathize with, we might even forget the entire premise is unreal. But very often the writers don't trust their own ability. Sometimes they feel the whole story is so farfetched they have to go an extra mile to make it more real. That's when things start going wrong. That's where it went wrong for this movie. I never expected a real life drama, if that was what I wanted I wouldn't be watching this movie to begin with.
It's very hard to explain my point precisely without spoilers, and I don't do spoilers. So what can I say. I can say that by the movie's end we're left with two choices, both steming from a desire to make the story feel more real, maybe to surprise us more than we usually get surprised in movies we came to know so well. Any which way, the two options we're left with are either, the entire movie will be reversed in the next installment. Which means that the whole Infinity War was a teaser for the next MCU installment. Or the entire MCU is getting a reboot.
I hate both options. And it's a great shame, because otherwise we had a perfectly good installment in the MCU. With the great sense of humor we all know and love. With great acting performances (Josh Brolin is really superb, making Thanos one of the greatest villains we ever saw), wonderful cinematography and CGI and everything else we come to expect of the MCU. If everybody loves it so much, why do we need to reboot it, when it's still going so very well. Or else why would you waste an entire installment as a teaser for the next one. We already know all the installments are connected to each other, we all wait for the post credits scenes, no matter how long we have to sit in the dark. So why did we need this silly concoction. It didn't make it feel more real, it made me feel frustrated and even angry because whatever option will come into being in the future I'll still think this one was a waste of my time and everybody else's.