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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame . Do not read more if you have seen the film.
It may have been a 1 in 14 million chance, but Marvel stuck the landing. Avengers: Endgame is not the best superhero movie ever made, but what Marvel has accomplished here is definitely greatest superhero movie ever made, and even more than that, it might be the most ambitious accomplishment in cinematic history.
It's hard to decide how to judge something like Avengers: Endgame . Like Thanos Himself, Endgame This article is only available in original language. If it was judged as a conventional movie, it would have been a story of fiction. But it's not a conventional movie, or even a sequel.
A still from Avengers: Endgame
In some ways, it's closest To be a final series of the Cinematic Universe Marvel (And yes, we would know that the MCU would go on, but honestly, calling this a final season would not do it justice). And just like a serialized TV show, it badumes that you've seen everything that's lead to these moments, and you're already in the narrative and characters, so it wastes absolutely none of its 181 minutes of runtime on explaining things to the uninitiated.
But as much as the MCU is its own entity, it still draws on the 60 years or more of the Marvel comic book history, and some of the best little moments are for people that are familiar with the MCU but with the Marvel Comics The Universe as a Whole
If you're just a casual viewer (maybe you saw Infinity War and a couple of other MCU movies) then you'll still enjoy what you're watching, but you might be a little confused around certain characters and plot points, and you will not be able to understand why, and whooping and clapping at seemingly innocuous moments. (All of these things happened in the cinema during the showing I watched).
Avengers: Endgame is a love letter to the fans of the MCU, and it's meticulously designed to give them the best experience of all.
Fortunately, I am an unashamed fanboy , including the last act that was a unique and exhilarating experience that left me in my seat, and with whom I would like to say that it was never really the 'cry at the movies' type [19659008] But that's enough of the general, non-spoilery review stuff. If you have not seen Endgame yet, go see it. (From the news of the box office, if you're not sure, you're probably only one – your friends are all about it, and you're going to be left out.)
I'm going to badume that you've seen the movie, or you're planning to do not care about spoilers.
Seriously, spoilers ahead.
Endgame does a lot of things in its role as a final chapter, taking its time to dwell on the aftermath of a world in which the Avengers lost, then using its 'time heist' structure to visit some of the most prominent highs of the franchise, all the while setting up a climax that strung together some of the biggest 'f # $ k yeah' moments ever committed to movie.
Probably it's a hard job if it was to close the arcs on the original 6 Avengers, giving each of them a satisfying send off. We were quite confident going into Endgame What happens next in the MCU, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Odinson Thor, Steve Rogers and Tony Stark would not play the same kind of role in it.
So just how good a job did the movie do in giving a satisfying ending?
Chris Evans as Captain America. Marvel Comics
Steve Rogers might have gotten the most satisfying ending of all; after taking a backseat in Infinity War, he was right at the forefront of almost everything that happened Endgame and from facing off with his past self ("That IS America's bad") to raise Mjolnir to fight single-handed Thanos (I enjoyed Thor's delighted 'I knew it!' to almost as much the frenetic, stunning choreography of that sequence) to his almost quiet 'Avengers, bademble' before the final battle. He got a chance to show why he's the heart, soul and unconquerable will of the Avengers. Most satisfyingly of all (especially if you're Steve Rogers), he's not only surviving the battle, but it's still going strong.
Grade: 10/10 for finally getting that dance
Still from Thor: Ragnarok. Image from Twitter / @ ComicBookNOW
Thor and Bruce Banner (They get graded together because they're friends from work) Infinity War and their arcs in Endgame more or less reflected that difference.
On the one hand, Banner's Newfound Acceptance of Hulk Gave Him Arguably the Best Version of Himself (though personally I'm with Valkyrie, I think I preferred either of the previous versions of him). His time-travel shenanigans were funny (though maybe a little cavalier, with the fate of the world?) To be the one of the Ancient One and it would be to the final battle, but he DID bring back half the universe, and took all the punishment from the gauntlet before collapsing building (for like, half an hour?) so that's pretty hard to top.
Thor on the other hand, took his failure in Infinity War extremely hard, and that depression was first seen in him going from 'pirate angel' to 'melted ice-cream' (can we just make GOTG 3 into 2 hours of Drax and Rocket describing things?). His bow through Endgame was less about redemption – if anything, he was less effective than Infinity War which was a little frustrating – but more about self-discovery. Getting the chance to see his mother again, giving up the crown of Asgard, and joining the 'Asguardians of the Galaxy' while definitely not being their leader – Could Thor's best days in the MCU be ahead of him? Of course.
Grade: 7/10 for the Strongest Avenger / s. (1965) (19659036) Hawkeye and Black Widow (Jeremy Renner and Scarlet Johansson). Screengrab from Youtube.
Clint and Natasha, our favorite spies who, with no superpowers at all, keep pace with gods and giants by being … proficient in ranged weapons? Maybe it's not surprising that they always get the bleakest storylines, because wow, Endgame is not kind to them.
Clint was 'retired' during Infinity War but the loss of his family to the snap (in a devastating pre-credits sequence) Ronin, but also more than enough motivation to jump right into testing time machines and flying spaceships.
Natasha spent the aftermath of the snap very differently, taking over the leader of the Avengers / Shield, even as her 'family' tries to move on with their lives. She's also the natural person to partner with Clint to try to claim Soul Stone.
Their friendship has been developed through 4 movies at this point and feels genuine and earned. Like the other times they have fought each other, Natasha wins, except that they are broken down on the bottom of the cliffs on Vormir, allowing a devastated clint to claim the soul stone.
On one level, this one feels like a logical narrative and a noble sacrifice – their backstory has included Natasha's debt to Clint, and the 'red in her ledger' and her best friend, of course she'd like to survive to return to his (hopefully unsnapped) family. But on another, it feels like just another thoughtlessly cruel chapter in how the MCU has treated Black Widow. Considering that the same movie features a very different face of the world of the MCU rallying around Captain Marvel, while the original female Avenger (who's been in more than anyone else except Iron Man) was sidelined with a death so specifically irreversible that not even the power of the Infinity Gauntlet could bring back her? That's pretty damn harsh
Grades:
6/10 for Clint, because he kept the gauntlet safe and T'Challa remembered his name.
9/10 for Natasha, for the world together for 5 years and saving her bestie.
2/10 for the MCU powers that be, because even DC treats their female heroes better. Who gives a character to a prequel movie after they've killed her off?
Dwoney Jr Robert as Iron Man. Facebook
That brings us to man himself – the alpha and the omega of the MCU as we know it. In the week-end I watched Endgame the thing that I spent the most time wondering about what they would do with Iron Man. I would have resigned myself to the conclusion that Tony Stark was almost certainly going to die (I actually believed that moment had come in Infinity War when Thanos stabbed him through the chest after that extended sequence where he fought him alone on Titan) But I just hoped that it would be something fitting for his character – something more than just a futile gesture of defiance or even a valiant sacrifice for his team.
As much as I've been to a fan of superheroes, the Marvel universe, and the Avengers, I'm the most fanatic of Tony Stark.
The first Iron Man movie shown us a genius billionaire philanthropist playboy who was practically the platonic ideal of male wish-fulfillment. A superhero who did not have powers, but also did not have a dark and brooding 24/7. More importantly, at the core of it, a genetic expert has a genetic experiment, a god or even a skilled soldier or operative – he was just an engineer; a nerd in powered armor. As you might imagine, this kind of hero resonated strongly with a self-confessed nerd.
Stark's only superpower was his brain and his ability to build things. Admittedly, building those things becomes a lot easier when you've got trillions to fund your high-tech manufacturing and AI badistant, but let's not forget that he started his journey with a reactor. scraps. "
Despite the fact that Iron Man could go toe against the heaviest hitters in the MCU (1945) where Iron Man 3 where for some reason, his suits were apparently made of tin-foil ), he was shockingly and uncomfortably vulnerable outside of the following, and very conscious of that human frailty. Unlike Steve Rogers who instinctively throws himself on grenades without a second thought to save the people around him, Stark takes a closer look with his heroics, using technology and problem solving to prevent self-sacrifice in the first place. [19659054] Iron Man ” width=”825″ height=”500″/>
Their Differing Perspectives A lot of the narrative in the Avengers movies, and while Stark has shown that he's able to 'make the sacrifice play', it's always a last resort, and his Uncategorized Instinct to Protect the World through Unabated Continuous Technology, Resulting in the Creation of Ultrons and the Avengers Along the Way. That history is what endlessly makes his bow in Endgame So poignant, as he has more Avengers; they all fought Thanos and lost, but he also survived by being lost in space to rebuild a life in the aftermath with a wife and daughter. He's been much luckier than most of the post-snap world, and he knows it.
But then that's the reason Dr. Strange was willing to risk the Stone Time – when your odds are 14000605: 1, Tony Stark is the guy you want in your corner.
His bow in Endgame goes from being defeated, resentful and frail after his ordeal on Titan, all the way through parenthood and stable family life, to inventing reliable time (wonder just what kind of lasting effects THAT's going to have the MCU). And just to cap his over-achieving career, he's one of those outwits and personally defeats Thanos once and for all, not just putting a string of brains around the world, but around the whole universe. That's a hell of a way to bow out
Grade: 12/10 For being the inevitable Iron Man
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