Well, here we are.
10 years after the universe started, 6 years after the first film, 4 years after it was
announced, Avengers: Infinity War has arrived.
As many of you know, this is probably the most excited I've ever been for a film.
Having been a huge fan of the MCU since seeing the first Captain America in the cinema as
a 9 year old, the culmination of this entire universe….yeah, that's gonna get me pretty
damn excited.
So, enough intro, let's talk about if it lived up to the hype.
*clip* And as per usual, I'm going no spoilers
first and then with a big warning I'll get into the spoilers.
But with this review in particular, because this is such a huge and highly anticipated
movie, I would recommend just not watching this video before you've seen the film.
Again, I promise, I will not spoil anything, but I wanted to go into this film having seen
as little as possible, and obviously this review will have some of the footage that's
been officially released, so just saying, for your own experience, I'd say save this
for after the movie.
Ok….I have avoided all reviews for this film so I have no idea what the general public
feel about it.
My own opinion, did it live up to my unliveuptoable expectations?
Ummmmm I really don't know.
I know what I liked, I know what I didn't like so much, we'll get into those specifics.
But as far as my overall feeling with this movie, I was kinda stumped when I first walked
out.
And even now, I'm still not entirely sure on my overall stance, was it as good as I'd
hoped, was it a bit underwhelming, it's kind of in the middle.
I know this is weird for a review but it's just so much to process, for a movie that
I've been this excited for to do this many things that surprised me.
So hey, let's talk specifics and by the end of writing this script and talking about
this film hopefully I'll have more of a solidified rating.
First off, I always start with the casts of these movies, and this one is too big to go
through.
You know that almost all of them are gonna be great, so let me just point out some favorites.
As per usual I loved RDJ and Tom Holland, and Chris Pratt was also fantastic as Star
Lord, balancing the funny moments and the heartfelt moments really well.
Now one that I think is worth individually mentioning is Thanos, because it's been built
up for a while how amazing of a villain he's supposed to be.
And yes, he gets a lot of screen time, and yes he does have more character than most
of the MCU villains.
But really I don't think I found him as compelling as say the Vulture.
He was a good character and I understood him, but something just didn't totally click with
me where I was like oh man this is the best villain of all time.
Might have something to do with the CGI, which for me had the Snoke problem.
Both of them have excellent CGI, but there's just something about it that looks a little
off and takes me out of it.
But yeah, he is a pretty strong villain in every sense.
I gotta say, bringing all these characters together the Russo brothers and Marvel did
a pretty stellar job.
The whole most ambitious crossover thing, yeah.
Now yes, there are some characters who I wish had gotten more to do, like basically you've
90% of their part in this movie in the trailer, and there are some characters and subplots
who they spend a little more time on than I think was necessary, but on the whole it's
very impressive how well they did this.
It's such a brilliant idea this whole thing, just like the first film, getting people very
familiar with these characters so they already know and like them and are more invested in
them and then setting them in a big team movie.
It's not only super cool to see the characters cross over, which we'll get to, but it also
makes these big character moments feel so much more fulfilling, cuz you already know
them so well.
Great example is Spider-Man, thanks to that one amazing Spider-Man movie he's now one
of the characters I'm most invested in, and I loved a lot of the fulfilling moments
that came with that in this movie.
Also the same abit with Black Panther, and the Guardians and Star Lord in particular.
It doesn't feel rushed, and it feels so earned.
It's the same was with the first film, there's context on who's who so if you're going
in totally fresh you kinda get it, but having the built characters with adventures and backstories
already just enhances the experience by a lot.
Speaking of which the Avengers meet the Guardians in this for the first time in different ways
which I won't spoil.
And yeah, it was pretty much just as cool as I'd hoped.
Seeing Iron Man and Star Lord match wits was fantastic, and the rest of the interactions
are great too.
In terms of the action, the Russos are famous for it and here, yeah it's still great.
The big battle sequences and everything, very well done.
Exciting, intense, little heavy on CG occasionally especially in one fight i particular but still.
The big Wakanda battle is phenomenal and I really enjoyed one of the fight scenes earlier
on.
Now the trailers have made this look like a super dark emotional experience, and in
some ways it is, which we'll get to in the spoilers.
But don't worry, it still has lots of that Marvel humor.
And for the most part, as you'd expect, yeah it's very funny.
This has some of the funniest moments in any MCU movie.
Emotional moments wise though, this has more than the others, that's for sure.
Most of them worked, there were a lot where I was almost crying and/or….yeah alright
crying a bit, and then there were somewhere I kinda wasn't as engaged in it as I wanted
to be.
I have to say, even though I don't think this is the best MCU movie overall, this may
have the most amazing moments of any of the films.
There were so many times where something happened in the movie and I just had this huge grin
on my face like I was a little kid watching the first Avengers again.
I had rewatched a bunch of these movies right before walking into this one, and while it's
not totally necessary to enjoy this film, it just gave a really nice perspective.
It's also just a lot of fun to think about how this all started.
The opening of the first Iron Man is so grounded and real world feeling, to think the Tony
Stark in that film would one day go off into space and meet the Guardians of the Galaxy
is just insane.
Now yes, we do have to talk about the negatives here, because for as much as I wanted this
to be a perfect movie, it wasn't.
There are some little things, for one, while most CGI is great, there are some moments
where it is….a little subpar.
I don't know what it is with the Russos but in their last two movies they've had
amazing special effects throughout and then one or two moments of just like really bad
CG or a terrible green screen.
Gotta say, didn't love the effects on the Black Order, especially the one who looks
like he's out of that Warcraft movie….or game.
While the movie made me laugh quite a bit, a few jokes don't land.
Or do land, and then go on for a bit too long.
One with Drax for example was super funny initially and then kinda dragged for just
slightly too long.
A little nit picky but you know it was there.
As these Marvel movies often do a lot of serious moments are undercut by jokes, but in this
there were only one or two times that I found it aggregious.
I gotta say, this is sort of a weird movie.
Because I was watching it and enjoying myself but also thinking, ok so this is not the perfect
masterpiece that I was very unrealistically expecting.
But at the same time, I don't really feel disappointed.
It's weird, cuz I remember seeing Age of Ultron and just feeling super disappointed
for a while afterwards.
But here, even though it wasn't as good as I was hoping, I didn't leave feeling like
bad or underwhelmed.
Maybe it's cuz I'm older, I don't know, but I really liked it and left feeling…..mostly
satisfied.
Even though the ending is….well we'll get to that in spoilers.
So overall, Avengers: Infinity War is a movie I really want to see again.
One cuz I enjoyed it but two to go in and watch it with more reasonable expectations
and an idea of where it's going and seeing how the experience differs.
I know a lot of people, including myself in some ways, don't love it when a reviewer is
like, I can't rate this one movie now over all the others, I have to see it again.
So I'm not gonna do that, I'll give this movie a rating.
I'm just putting up a disclaimer that my thoughts may change over time as this movie
sinks in more, cuz yeah, this movie matters to me and has more of an impact on me just
based on how much of a fan I am, more so than a lot of the other "normal" movies I see.
I suspect I like it more the second time.
At the moment, after one viewing, I really enjoyed Infinity War and I gotta say I liked
how surprised I was and putting aside the enjoyment it is a massive incredible feat.
The fact that a movie with this much hype and had this much to do was this good is very
impressive.
But I also don't think all of the surprises were fantastic and the movie does have noticeable
flaws besides that.
In terms of how I would rank it in the MCU, probably here.
Again, very likely could change.
Overall I'll give Infinity War an 8.7/10.
Alright, we're getting into full on spoilers now.
There are some huge things to spoil in this movie, so you have been warned.
5 4 3 2 1.
Ok first off, I gotta talk about the Red Skull cameo.
Come on.
Yeah I know it's just fan service, but I'm a fan and I've been saying for forever that
the Red Skull is totally alive out in space somewhere and he should come back, and he
actually did.
Sure it's quite obviously not Hugo Weaving, but that just made me smile so much, since
he was the first villain I ever saw in the MCU.
Also yeah I'd say that's a decently satisfying answer to where the Soul Stone is, even though
I don't think anyone predicted that.
Speaking of cameos Peter Dinklage shows up, which was kinda fun.
Some of my other favorite moments were when Cap showed up for the first time and definitely
when Thor Rocket and Groot landed in Wakanda.
They did a good job of keeping that a surprise which made it just that much cooler when it
happened.
Now I gotta related to this, this is probably also due to different expectations, btu to
be fair, these expectations are based on what people have said.
The Russos have said that while Avengers 3 and 4 are connected, they aren't a part
1 part 2 situation.
And I was really happy about this cuz part 1s always leave me feeling kind of dissatisfied.
And then I saw this and I was like, this is totally a part 1.
This is 100% a part 1.
And maybe that's not even such a bad thing, but then I sort of just wish that they'd
said that so I was prepared for this not to be like oh sort of open ended like hey another
adventure is coming but like flatout Hobbit 2 style cliffhanger.
And yes that was the first example I thought of.
I just left me feeling kind of empty, which maybe was the point, but I don't think it
was the empty way that the movie wanted.
I honestly kinda feel like I haven't seen the whole movie which might be why I feel
weird judging it.
I wanna be like well these characters didn't shine as much as I was hoping, but I don't
know if they will in the second film.
So really that just makes it a bit of a weird situation.
Speaking of which, no Hawkeye or Ant-Man.
Which again, I suppose I should've expected, it's not like they were anywhere near the
marketing for this film.
But especially with Hawkeye, the directors said he has his own special journey in the
movie and he's just flat out not there.
I feel kind of lied to, and not even by my own expectations, just flat out.
It's not a huge deal or anything, it's just another thing that I was waiting for and then
didn't happen.
Like a lot of the shots in the trailers.
The coolest moment in the first trailer, the big epic shot of the Avengers charging into
battle in the end, not in the movie.
Totally just there to mislead you.
Hulk, doesn't show up in the battle for Wakanda.
Not at all.
It's not like this might be a shot that they cut from the final cut in the end, this
flat out doesn't happen in any sense.
And I guess that's more marketing's fault than the movie's, i know, but I just wanted
to comment on that cuz I was waiting for that epic shot and it never came.
Same with some moments just being not as cool in the movie as they were in the trailer,
like the Cpa catching Thanos thing isn't as big of a moment as I thought it would be.
Again, you may think these are stupid complaints, but this is why I think I would like this
more on the second viewing when I know what to expect more.
One big moment I gotta say I didn't love was when Peter promised to kill Gamora and then
had to do that like 10 minutes later.
I thought it would be at the very end of the movie but it all happened very quickly and
felt a bit rushed to me.
And while Chris Pratt gives an excellent emotional performance in that scene I was like, I can't
really get behind this, cuz this also seems out of place for Star Lord to me.
Having just rewatched the first Guardians before watching this movie, Peter Quill shooting
one of the few things he loves that is still alive in the universe only a very short while
after being introduced to the concept of it, I don't see it.
So that was just why I couldn't get involved in that moment as much as I wanted to.
The end credits scene was quite fun.
I'm glad Fury is back in the MCU, and so I guess Captain Marvel will play a big part
in Avengers 4.
Cool.
And now let's talk deaths.
Specifically that ending, oh my god we gotta talk about that ending.
First though, other deaths, Gamora died which gotta say that scene did make me choke up
a little bit.
Loki died, which again was pretty sad but I didn't cry cuz my tears for Loki deaths
have been spent already, I'm sorry.
I think the movie knows that though.
Heimdall died, I'm assuming Korg and Meek are just completely obliterated by now.
Asgard is really destroyed, the place and the people.
And then half the Avengers and half the planet were killed at the end.
Half of the planet.
Now first on the civilian part of this, this was a ballsy and very Kingsman-like move,
where I fear they may have jumped the shark.
Killing half the people in the world….now the next movie is gonna have to be post apocalyptic
in a way, I suppose, which I don't know if I like for an Avengers movie.
But they're gonna have to reverse this cuz somehow cuz otherwise I don't really know
if I'll be able to buy this world functioning.
And then as far as the Avengers, it's quite noticeable that it's mostly the new slate
of Avengers who "die", and you can't see it but I put die in quotes.
It's a little bit of a shame that these characters all have future movies lined up,
but even so, I know they're not gonna kill Spider-Man and Doctor Strange and Black Panther
only two years after they've been introduced.
Even so that was an emotional scene, especially with Spider-Man.
Again, I am more invested in Peter Parker than a lot of these characters thanks to that
movie, and to see him breaking down like that in exactly the way that that character and
just a kid in that situation would, it was so heartbreaking.
Also when Tony almost died, yeah I started tearing up too.
I was so sure that was gonna be the end of Stark.
So what's gonna happen in Avengers 4?
Well I've seen a theory floating around and I absolutely think this will happen.
So notice how pretty much all the original Avengers are left, plus a few extra?
Well I think this is gonna come back to a line that's pretty prevalent in this movie
which is something like we don't trade lives, and those original Avengers are gonna trade
their own lives to bring back those who died.
Okoye will trade for T'Challa, Cap for Bucky, Tony for Spider-Man, and so on.
Not sure how that would work for the rest of the world problem, but this would mean
that those stakes are still there and people did die, and it would also be the perfect
passing of the torch and incredibly emotional and a great way to see our original heroes
go out.
We'll also get one last adventure with all of the original heroes together, which would
be awesome.
What the rest of that movie will be about, mabe still Skrulls, I don't know.
I'm sure I can make loads of videos on that in the future.
Captain Marvel, Hawkeye and Ant-Man will probably play really big roles though.
So those were my thoughts on Avengers Infinity War.
What did you think of it?
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