A soulless factory product filled with unnecessary violence and meaningless "deaths"...

Rating: Null/10 (25 August 2018)

In 2017, the mighty Marvel factory produced three shallow, juvenile comedies that were apparently "required" to make Infinity War happen. Infinity War is a culmination of all these previous films: pointless, purposeless (other than to make Avengers 4 happen), a big film filled with nothing.
The filmmakers of Infinity War have limited talents and vision, and mistook unnecessary violence and meaningless deaths for "stakes" and "gravitas". They arrogantly thought by making a villain "win" they could suddenly "elevate" their bloated yet empty film into something "great". Unfortunately with all their futile efforts they created a villain whose motive is dumb and stupid and whose method is even more dumb and stupid. Obviously these Marvel filmmakers haven't studied anthropology or human history or statistics or science, anything that requires engagement from more than a few hundred brain cells.
Marvel films have been mostly mediocre at story-telling, and their cinematography and editing have consistently been atrocious. However, some of Marvel characters managed to shine in the past despite mundane, repetitive plots, either due to individual efforts of talented actors, or due to occasional witty and memorable dialogues (the first Avengers). Because of that, some characters have remained popular with the audience. Infinity War destroyed everything that was still good about Marvel. The movie made every single character act irrationally: They constantly make inopportune jokes and idiotic decisions, and often commit kamikaze acts that make you shake your head in disgust instead of feeling anything for their "heroics" or "sacrifices". These characters have been reduced to nothing but soulless machine parts plugged into this giant Marvel machine to churn out more pointless films.
Infinity War is the beginning of the end of Marvel. Anyone who appreciates good filmmaking expecting to see anything decent from Marvel in the future will be surely disappointed.