I absolutely loved Infinity War. It is without any doubt or second thought, the best Marvel movie and among the best superhero movies ever.
With this said I was super hyped to see where the second part would go history wise, after such epic ending of the first film.
And what they do? They kill Thanos in the first 15 minutes.
I know it served the plot somehow, but the emotional connection with the main villain was completely gone.
After this they proceed with a dull series of events portraying depressed heroes and coming up with this "quantum realm time travel" thing to give the remaining heroes a chance to turn back time and revive their fallen comrades.
Scattered around the world, the solitary, remorseful, depressed, suicidal or obese heroes get together and devise a plan to get the Infinity Stones again.
From this point onward until the last roughly 40 minutes the movie turns into a deja vu trip. We get to see a little bit of previous MCU movies, they mess with the past, even giving Loki an escape path. They intertwine realities and dimensions to get the stones and finally Thanos realizes what happens in the future and intervenes.
But this is not the real Thanos. It's a mere copycat to whom we didn't develop emotional attachment to. We didn't see him going through character development, like our heroes did. The only difference between this and the real old Thanos is that this one now aims to destroy the universe and create a new one. So the drive and ambition of the first Thanos which turned him into such a great ambiguous villain is now radicalized and he ends up becoming another regular villain with thirst for power. This completely disconnected me from the novie.
The main fight sequences are great, the return of the fallen heroes from the first movie was expected but pretty well done. The all-women moment defending Spiderman was unecessary, Captain America worthy of Thor's hammer was lame as hell and passing the shield to a black guy instead of Bucky felt politicized.
I'm kind of glad Cap Marvel ended up having little importance in the whole thing, and the protagonism went all to the old timers. They deserved the protagonism.
All in all, I think this movie was almost weaker copy of the first, with the difference of who snaps the finger in the end. Even the humor is 10x worse. They lost a chance to do something unforgettable, and ended up with an overly dramatic rehashed sequel.
I saw Infinity War four times. This one I won't even see a second.
After this they proceed with a dull series of events portraying depressed heroes and coming up with this "quantum realm time travel" thing to give the remaining heroes a chance to turn back time and revive their fallen comrades.
Scattered around the world, the solitary, remorseful, depressed, suicidal or obese heroes get together and devise a plan to get the Infinity Stones again.
From this point onward until the last roughly 40 minutes the movie turns into a deja vu trip. We get to see a little bit of previous MCU movies, they mess with the past, even giving Loki an escape path. They intertwine realities and dimensions to get the stones and finally Thanos realizes what happens in the future and intervenes.
But this is not the real Thanos. It's a mere copycat to whom we didn't develop emotional attachment to. We didn't see him going through character development, like our heroes did. The only difference between this and the real old Thanos is that this one now aims to destroy the universe and create a new one. So the drive and ambition of the first Thanos which turned him into such a great ambiguous villain is now radicalized and he ends up becoming another regular villain with thirst for power. This completely disconnected me from the novie.
The main fight sequences are great, the return of the fallen heroes from the first movie was expected but pretty well done. The all-women moment defending Spiderman was unecessary, Captain America worthy of Thor's hammer was lame as hell and passing the shield to a black guy instead of Bucky felt politicized.
I'm kind of glad Cap Marvel ended up having little importance in the whole thing, and the protagonism went all to the old timers. They deserved the protagonism.
All in all, I think this movie was almost weaker copy of the first, with the difference of who snaps the finger in the end. Even the humor is 10x worse. They lost a chance to do something unforgettable, and ended up with an overly dramatic rehashed sequel.
I saw Infinity War four times. This one I won't even see a second.