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So it all ends. I have loved most of the MCU, some have been too predictable but I awaited after IW to see how it would all pan out. Firstly some of my favourite characters are a joke. Please don't dumb Thor or Banner/Hulk down, not necessary. Great starting scene, then slow dramatic next 1.5 hours. It builds to the time travel reversing all section with too many plot holes. We've all seen other time reversing movies who have done it so much better. The last hour is spectacular, great to see all the gang back but it feels rushed. Emotion runs high and defo not a kids film in my eyes. Cap is great Stark is amazing but everyone else feels like there just there. What I loved was the beauty of the final scenes, wonderful score and saying goodbye to old friends. Overall wanted more, but even far from perfect is still pretty good.

I have to say, my first reaction walking out of the cinema was that it was great. Probably an 8/10. You know there's so much fan service in this movie and I particularly loved the "I can do this all day" CA line from one CA to another. It was almost Toy Story 2, enlightened Buzz to naive Buzz banter.

I loved Clever Hulk, found Thor hilarious, though a bit annoying at times, and loved the references to past movies. Cap swinging Mjollnir around was beautiful.

The deaths in this movie were also pretty surprising but I agree with some of the more balanced reviews in here that it was bizarre that so much time was spent on Hawkeye - does anyone really care about him? Not really.

Killing off Black Widow was a surprising touch, but I, like many others, probably felt more of an emotional reaction to Banner's relationship with her and not Hawkeye (because no one actually cares about him). Renner, as an actor, just doesn't cut it much, unfortunately.

The real problem with End Game, is the time travel. I don't know why any movie franchise would ever want to deal with time travel knowing how much grief it creates. Sure they try to explain everything with their hilarious conversation about movies, but in the end, there are just too many questions left at the end of the day, particularly when they already try to explain it through the Ancient One.

The most glaring one of these is, if they change the past, they're changing another timeline, so how selfish is that? If Tony Stark snaps his fingers and kills Thanos, what happens to that original timeline? If he sent Thanos and everyone back, how does he magically know not to send Gamora back who is now stuck in 2023 - and so does that mean 2014 Quill never meets Gamora?!? What the hell? Essentially erasing the entire 2014 GOTG franchise in that universe. If Captain America goes back in time, he will inevitably change history in some way or another, so that is another timeline, right? So while everyone else's timeline is meant to stay the same in the present (as said by Stark) how does Cap end up sitting by the same lake as everyone else.

There are also way too many questions about new timelines created - but perhaps that is intentional, such as the Loki TV show. But this is why I hate it when they bring time travel into any movie and just add stuff to it to make it wrap up nicely in their own universe.

Also, don't get me started on how impossibly strong Thanos suddenly is without an infinity gauntlet? Even WITH the IG he couldn't stop Thor's Stormbringer, but now without the IG can easily defeat Thor with Stormbringer AND Mjollnir, Iron Man and Cap??? How convenient.

I also think Marvel made a serious mistake creating Captain Marvel, how is she brought in as a convenient deus ex machina and yet doesn't really stick around to show off all her abilities, and she can't even defeat Thanos single handedly? Pfft. That was rich. She can barely prevent Thanos from snapping his fingers, yet in Infinity War, Cap was able to actually hold off his hand too? Bizarre parallels.

So okay, sure, it was enjoyable to watch, but I just feel that there are too many plot inconsistencies creeping into End Game. There should have been better ways to get the infinity stones back, and I think someone stupid just thought time travel was the best way to do it,.

Attention: this review contains spoilers.

This is a very entertaining movie, very funny, and with many references to other movies in the franchise.

But it is also a big disappointment. Since last year's snap and the reference to the time vortex in "Ant-Man and the Wasp" it was absolutely clear that we would see a time traveling story. These are usually the best, e.g. "Back to the Future", "Terminator" (especially when we ignore the paradoxon), or "Star Trek VI - The Voyage Home". Still, even as the problems with causality in time travels are discussed by the Avengers team, only a few minutes later in the movie these thoughts are kind of ignored. So, actually there is not one, but several paradoxons. Being a huge fan of of well aligned time traveling stories, I really cannot take this movie serious, even from a MCU fan perspective. Here you can just take people out of their time, even let them die, and their future counterparts still exist. If it would be so easy, there would have been so many more solutions to the snap problem from the start. This was really disturbing.

Further critical thoughts:

• If Peter Parker's friends are back and everything is at the same age, then everyone from the Spidey movies has to have been snapped.
• Peter Parker is at the same funeral as Nick Fury. The trailer for the upcoming movie shows how they meet the first time. Is "Far from home" set in the past? Then why would Happy Hogan point out that Spidey is now on its own.
• Fat Thor was funny for a very short moment in the movie. Later it is just annoying. And this is not me having a problem with a fat hero. But it is much more about that senseless ending for Thor. Through Thor 1-3 we saw him evolve to be the leader who is needed as a successor of Odin. And now as his people is decimated, they just blend in as fishers, there is nothing to see from Asgardian culture or technology, he looks like Lebowski and finally just says: Well, I am off. How can that be Thor who had to evolve and show his worthiness?!? It's a terrible twist on this major character.
• It is no surprise that Iron Man's and Captain America's story arcs came to an end. it resembles comic story arcs from Civil War and Infinity War. And also contracts expired. Nevertheless, it was very obvious as well, because they really reached the end of their personal story arcs. I just expected Cap to be the one snapping.
• While we are at it: So, the snap is something very, very bad. Unless you do it against your enemy, meaning the bad guys. Then it's okay, just to erase everyone from existence.
• And about the stones. Do you remember when we saw in "Guardians of the Galaxy" that hardly anyone would be able to hold them in the hand, without being destroyed by their power. Remember Starlord and the others working together for that purpose and him only being able, because he is a half-god? Well now, cheer up. It's happy stones week at McMCU. So everyone, can just take the stones and carry them around. Ehm ...
• Loki leaving with the Tesseract. Yes, another paradoxon. But necessary for the cash cow of Disney in order to make a Loki TV series.
• The death of Black Widow. Just sad. But also a little far stretched with this battle who want to die more for the other.
• The mind stone: Hmm, should we go back to the aftermath of the battle of New York in order to get the scepter or could we just go to some other time in the future when Vision is around, take enough time and get the stone without killing him? Let's do the first in order to free Loki and save the cash cow for Disney, as mentioned before. Yeah, that makes sense.
• Again the mind stone: Yes, everything has to be returned to its original place by Cap. Would have been great to see how makes a new scepter and puts the mind stone back in place. The same is true for the Tesseract and so on.
• The soul stone: So, Cap travels to Vormir again, returns the stone, but gets nothing in return? Just in order to keep the time line in order, which has been screwed up by many other things like killing all the bad guys from the past or Nebula?

This review is now much longer than intended and actually I have many, many more points. I also liked a lot a lot about this movie, but these and further points are really killing it for me. Perhaps after time I will come to accept that this movie is the end of the Avengers, but I would have preferred a shorter version with a story that makes more sense instead of three hours overloaded with too many references and self-indulgement about the previous movies in the franchise. In the end, it felt a little bit as if I had seen one of these J J Abrams movies or series, where you are hyped until you get to the ending and just see that too many things didn't make sense after all.

Perhaps Infinity War was the film of Thanos in which he imposed what he was seeking, but Endgame is the movie of Avengers who impose what they seek, and perhaps his title, which translates to "the end of the game" means the end of what Thanos sought. But do you think that would be that easy? Contrary to what Thanos did quite easily? you are wrong! The Infinite War movie may have been very touching and shocking when Thanos killed half of the universe creatures, but the endgame is more impactful and shocking than him. Although the cuff will be in the interest of the Avengers in this movie, nothing comes for free, must be given to get, and perhaps the long time period for the movie that reached three hours was very reasonable because their journey to achieve their goal was neither easy nor many options in front of them.

Watching Avengers Endgame started as a nice story that soon became boring and predictable. The problem is that it's supposed to end an era, to be a big moment before the curtain fall, but instead tries to pave the way for Marvell phase 4. There were some interesting moments, some funny moments that really made me smile, but at the end it all fell flat. Flat as a rug. They tried to cram each and everyone in the movie, but in my opinion it feels fake, like parading with fake cardboard masks. The CGI-fest soon became boring...except for the de-aging of Michael Douglas, that was 100% uncanny valley material. I was watching it feeling nothing, feeling dead inside. Then the woke trend rear its ugly head. Anyway, it's safe to say that I'll avoid Marvel in the future. The Endgame should stay the endgame. It's time to move on.

The worst of all the avengers sequence. Boring apart from some cool action scenes. Stupid scene when CA lifts thor's hammer wtf. Also we were expecting Dr Strange to show his real powers and see him more in the movie as he is the most powerful