I want to start off this review by giving each and every person who reads it some advice. There are 3 things you must do/understand for this movie to be fantastic.
1. This movie is titled "Avengers Infinity War" not "Black Panther 2" the amount of reviews I have seen that slam this movie for it's limited time in Wakanda with the cast of Black Panther is absolutely daunting. Black Panther got a movie two months prior to this film. It is absolutely OK for a movie to not focus solely on a character that just got their own 2 hours of fame.
2. If you haven't watched the other MCU movies leading up to this film I ask you a simple question. Why even go see this movie? Sure, you know who Captain America is because you have a crush on Chris Evans or yeah you know who Black Widow is because you have a crush on Scarlett Johansson. However, that does not mean you truly know/understand the story or characters going into this film. you absolutely at bare minimum need to watch 1 Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Avengers, and Guardians of the Galaxy movie before going into Avengers Infinity War.
3. There is going to be a part two for this movie. Lots of the blind hate I am seeing for this film is that the ending "Ruins Everything" and half of these people dont understand that next year we are getting Avengers 4 (which no one knows anything about btw. Its all just speculation at this point.)
WIth that out of the way I can now start my review. Also be warned, there are spoilers in this review beyond this point.
Avengers Infinity War is a nonstop ride from the first scene all the way to the final end credits sequence. Lets break this film down by the story lines of the characters involved.
Tony: For years Tony has been cursed with the knowledge of the upcoming doom for the team. After his last minute decision to throw that missile into the portal in New York six years prior, Tony has had mass PTSD. In this film there is a two year time jump since the events of Captain America: Civil War. Pepper and Tony are preparing for their wedding when he is visited by Steven Strange where he gets a crash course on the Infinity Stones and a visit from Bruce Banner, whom he hasn't seen since Age of Ultron. Tony and his team are trust into battle ending with Steven, Peter, and Tony all on an alien U.F.O. headed to Titan. Tony's big moments comes when he is fighting Thanos one on one and he realizes that the mad titan knows him from similar visions before he is stabbed in the gut with his own blade. However, he survives to the end.
Steve Rogers: Captain America is back in a sense as the new character Nomad. Cap doesn't act on anyone's authority other than his own. This doesn't stop him from coming back when his team needs him. Steve's real purpose in this film is to introduce Wakanda to the rest of the team after his time there after the events of Civil War. Steve also survives.
Thor: This film opens with Thor watching as Thanos kills his brother Loki with a neck snap and his best friend Heimdall with a blade to the heart. When we next see Thor he literally crashes into the windshield of The Guardians of the Galaxy. Thor soon separates from the majority of the team alongside Groot and Rocket to go to Nidavellir to forge a new hammer after his sister destroyed Mjolnir in Thor Ragnarok. Thor reveals his past to Rocket in one of the movies most heartfelt scenes (Which also shows that Chris Hemsworth and Bradley Cooper make a fantastic on screen team). Thor is 1,500 years old. He has killed at least double that amount. He watched his Father, Brother, Sister, Mother, and Best Friend die. His girlfriend left him. His original love interest was killed along with his team. But, he is ready to become the man he needs to be for those he loves. After a quick eye patch up from Rocket and discovering the star he forges his weapons at has gone dark Thor does what he has to for the weapon to be forged almost killing himself in the process. Once Stormbreaker is forged he goes back to earth just in time to help Steve and his team win in Wakanda. Thor survives as well.
Peter Parker: Poor Peter is in this movie only to become an Avenger and then die. However, Tom Holland absolutely nails his role in this film. Also the Iron Spider suit is completely badass and honestly worth the price of admission alone if you're a Spider Man fan like myself.
Peter Quill: I completely understand what they did with Star Lord in this movie, They showed he was insecure and impulsive. However, in doing so they make him seem more like a whiny child than a grown man, which after a few scenes becomes a bit too much. Peter's one good scene is with Gamora when she is taken by the mad titan himself on the planet Knowhere. Chris Pratt did all he could with the script he had, but it just wasn't enough for me and is a reason this film gets a 9/10 instead of a 10/10. I just didn't care when he died.
Gamora: Possibly the character that grows the most in this film is the daughter of Thanos, Gamora. Throughout the movie you learn of the secrets Gamora has kept such as the location of the Soul Stone on Vormir, Gamora is a broken woman who in her final moments before she is sacrificed by Thanos for the Soul Stone as instructed by the surprise comeback of Red Skull as the guardian of the stone after he was sucked into the portal at the end of the first Captain America movie.
Vision: The most important character on earth is The Vision. He has a literal Infinity Stone in his forehead. After Thano's Black Order tracks him down in Scotland he is saved by Captain America and taken to Wakanda so that he can have the stone removed so that his lover Scarlet Witch can destroy it given that her powers literally come from the stone itself. This doesn't work out which leads to Wanda having to kill the man she loves in a heartbreaking scene before watching as he is brought back via the Time Stone and killed once more by Thanos giving him the final Infinity Stone.
Thanos: I have been saving this character for a reason. There are very few villains in movies that reach this level of excellency. This is Marvel's answer to Heath Ledger's Joker in Batman The Dark Knight. Josh Brolin is a fantastic actor. Not only did he pull this role off seamlessly, he also was a perfect Cable in Dead Pool 2 which released a few weeks later. Thanos is smart He predicted the death of his planet and proposed a mass genocide at random of half the population in order to save the lives of those remaining. When his planet Titan fell into death he waged war on the universe hell bent on receiving all six Infinity Stones so that he could wipe out half of all life. He destroys the Nova core for the Power Stone, He kills Loki for the Space Stone, He kills The Collector for the Reality Stone, He is given the Time Stone as a peace offering from Doctor Strange, He kills Vision for the Mind Stone, and he sacrifices his favorite daughter Gamora the only person he loves for the Soul Stone. In the end he is stabbed in the heart by Thor, but not before he can snap his fingers and literally wipe out half of all life in the universe. The film ends with him sitting on his porch watching out over a grateful universe just as he predicted.
All in All I am happy that i've seen this film six times and I would go back in a heartbeat to see it a seventh.
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