Newcomer's Perspective

Rating: 7/10 (12 May 2018)

Unlike, it seems, everybody else, I'm still a newcomer to the Marvel Universe. I've seen two previous movies - the ones where the raccoon stars but none other. So I was a bit confused as to who everybody was and why they can do the things that they can.
Putting that aside, I really marveled at the CGI craft here. I won't say it's the best ever since I'm hardly an expert but it sure was better, in some ways, than what I've ever seen in the past except for Avatar - a movie almost a decade old now. The downside of the CGI was the constant fast cuts meaning, at least for me, little comprehension of the action during fights. I only figured out who won a particular fight after it was over. I never had that issue with Avatar.
I'll get right to my issue here. The plot is utterly senseless. The bad guy, who is weirdly the most sympathetic and best developed character, has a plan which is senseless. It can't work even if he achieves his stated goal. However, his ends can be met by other means. I was waiting for a character, any character, to sit down with this guy and together work out a plan which will achieve the bad guy's desires but also cause no misery or destruction.
Then too we have the tired issue of time travel not taken. This pervades any show where time travel exists. There's no reason for a time traveler to experience a bad outcome since he can jump back in time as often as needed to remedy the issue. Here, the good guys get the bad guy under their power and are about to prevail when one of the good guys does something moronic which caused the bad guy to escape. Well, Mr. Time Traveler, go back a few minutes so you can stop this from occurring.
There are other holes too. People have magical powers which wax and wane. One minute some woman is easily defeated by the bad guy and next is able to fend him off using only part of her power. That sort of inconsistency is rampant.
Well, it was a good show even if it bugged me due to it simply doing whatever it wished without attention to what happened previously. I feel I got my money's worth and you'll get more if you also shut your brains off while watching.