Good action and visuals

Rating: 8/10 (19 May 2018)

This is a well made Marvel superhero comic book movie.

You may stumble upon many reviews saying that this movie is Marvel's magnum opus, a comic book movie masterpiece that asks questions, brings up new and interesting ideas and stuff, but it's not.

It is written much better than most of Marvel's stuff, yet this type of movie has its limits, mostly because it is made to appeal to the widest possible audience. This means that some of the core elements have to be dumbed-down to be more understandable and simple. Thus all the drama parts are very simplistic in order to be easier to process by younger audiences. I hoped that this movie would have been a little heavier but it's not.

This fact also affects the dialogue, most of which is either a failed attempt at humor (yet the "target" audience, younger kids, seemed to be enjoying every joke in the theater), or an attempt to overexplain the simplistic plot, or some really weird pop culture reference younger audiences won't be able to understand anyway. Thus, most of the talking parts were a pain to sit through with rare exceptions. There was one good joke set up by War Machine in Wakanda though.

The action was great, even though at times it was hard to understand what was going on. From time to time the superheroes even use their abilities in a clever way. CGI was mostly good too and some of the environments they created were pleasing to the eye, especially the Vormir part, neat art direction. Kudos to all 3000 of CGI artists and studios that made this movie. One of the weakest technical parts was the soundtrack, the tracks were forgettable and not fitting at times.

Plotwise the movie was extremely predictable, furthermore, the events of the second part are also easy to predict. I don't want to spoil anything, but a change of heart is what we are going to see.

A well made movie that, while being probably the most emotion-packed of Marvel movies, is still unable to provide you with that feel or emotion when you leave the theater changed at heart.