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Avengers: Endgame

 

 

 

8/10

The end of an era comes about in the shape of Avengers Endgame. We have been following the story all the way from Iron Man in 2008 and now the climax is about to take place. All of the end credit scenes, stand-alone movies and re-introduction of Spider-man into the MCU can not prepare the audience for what is about to begin. Whether you are a fan of Marvel or the superhero genre in any way, it isn't hard to know the names of these characters and even the cast who help them to come alive on the big screen. Let's get down to the bulk of it and put a lid on the last 11 years. I have some predictions, one being a major death but let's find out how right I'll be.
The scene is set a little while after everyone has turned to dust and we are finding out how the survivors are carrying on and looking for Thanos. Captain Marvel has found Tony and Nebula, bringing them back to Earth, Bruce Banner is now half Hulk half-human and is a big green gentle giant and even Hawkeye makes an appearance as he is now killing for fun after his family has been wiped out. Having tracked Thanos down to a planet which looks a lot like Earth, they confront him and Thor beheads the Titan, leaving me wondering what the hell I've just witnessed as an opening to this movie. They wanted to get the stones back in order to try and return to normality of some sort. Another few years in the future, Ant-man is released from the quantum realm but a rat and has no idea what has happened. To him, it's been 5 hours. Now, getting all remaining Avengers, everyone sets back in time to get the stones in places they have been in history, whether that is in a movie we have already seen or a lot further in the past.

 They succeed and only one man is up for giving his fingers a snap. Hulk steps up and manages to bring everyone back but there's a problem. In their time travel, Nebula was caught by the past Gamora and Thanos and even the other Nebula. The past Nebula disguises herself and manages to use the time portal to bring through Thanos and his army to wreak havoc.
Now before I head any further into the storyline, I have a bone to pick with all of this bullshit time travel crap. So they are using Pym Particles in order to travel through time and only have enough for each person to travel once, really needing to make it count. They falter a little, head back further in time where there would be more particles and finish their missions. Now then, tell me how Thanos can use one of the same tubes of Pym Particles and transfer 1000's and I mean 1000's because we'll see them later, his ship and all that comes with it, through the time portal and into the future. The Avengers could have all traveled together and made sure each grab went seamlessly. Stupid loophole.
Back to the story and we are about to have the massive showdown. The 'remainers', and not with Brexit are ready to face Thanos and his lot, just before they get a call and everyone who has come back enter through portals by Dr. Strange and the gang.
 

 

 Fighting ensues and for me, it doesn't last long enough. We get the ultimate cringe moment when the females stand together for no fucking reason what so ever other than the creators shitting their pants for not putting it in there and the movie comes to an end the only way that Dr. Strange knew it would. Tony steals the stones and snaps. Taking out the villains, Tony has given the ultimate sacrifice and now he can finally rest.

The movie draws to a close with Tony's funeral and everyone is there, even the kid from Iron Man 3 and as the camera pans further into the crowd, in walks Fury. As the team head to put the stones back into the past where they came from, Captain America is the man for the job. It should only take seconds but he doesn't return and instead, we see him sitting on a bench by a lake. He's a lot older now and chose to stay in the past with Agent Carter and live his life. He hands his shield over to Falcon, which I totally disagree with, it should have been Bucky, not this wet blanket. One other thing I think would have worked a lot better was instead of making Chris Evans look a lot older, they should have used Stan Lee is an elderly Captain America, but that may just have been me.
This movie from me wasn't as good as Infinity War and I may even feel a tiny bit disappointed. There were moments of awesomeness, for example, the reunion of Tony and Peter or Thor's moments once more. There were also moments to dislike. Majorly the Captain America moment where he is worthy enough to get Thor's hammer. Now I don't mind hat part but if the hammer is used for Thor to control his control of lightning then why the hell does Cap manage to control the lightning too! For us unreligious Marvel fans, it seemed a step too far. It was great to see the character that Hawkeye had become, which was a lot darker and the loss of Black Widow was a little unexpected but within the scene, you knew which one was going to go. This comes for Iron Man too. This was my major prediction for the movie but I honestly put Cap in the same bracket too, but he let time do the job. The graphics, once again, along with the musical score, played a massive part in this movie. The music, more importantly, adding to the suspense and the joy, especially as most of the characters returned for the final showdown. It'll be interesting to see where we going from here now. Who steps up to be the leader and from what I can see, there isn't a stand-out character I'm really looking forward too now hat even Thor has taken a back seat. The next phase looks mediocre at best.