Too much for not enough

Rating: 6/10 (6 May 2018)

I wanted to like this movie, but like The Last Jedi, I'm having a hard time finding things to like about it. If you haven't kept up with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, be prepared to be confused. The last several Marvel movies didn't appeal to me, so I never saw them. If you haven't seen Dr. Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, The Amazing Spider Man, or Black Panther, you're going to have a hard time catching everything that is going on. I haven't seen any of those, and spent at least half of the 2 1/2 hours confused. Marvel and Disney made this movie almost specifically for people who have seen every one of their movies.
The movie should have been at least half an hour shorter, if not more.
I think, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a little too bloated for its own good. Too many properties, too many story lines. Using an overarching Avengers movie to try to tie everything together was much easier to accomplish during the time of the first Avengers movie. Now, they really need to pick and choose what to include. Just because you make a combination movie doesn't mean you have to throw every property you have access to into the pot. Also, a side note, with everyone who was shoehorned into this movie, they couldn't do more for Hawkeye than one sentence of dialog that basically said, "Yeah, he's not here. Let's move on to something else."?
Finally, I think the director must have taken a page from the Halo 2 guide to set up a sequel. The movie just...ends. We always knew there was going to be "Infinity War 2", but you could have done a little more than just fade to black.
I always shake my head at the idiots who clap at the end of movies, but also like The Last Jedi, no one in the showing I attended found anything to clap for. You can do better, Marvel.