Avengers : Endgame
Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 9:35 am
Went to see this yesterday! A good victory lap for the franchise and the ten years of work that's gone into making this experiment work. God knows what anyone coming cold to this will have made, with all it's nods and references to things that went before. The first 2/3rds of the film are my favourite bits where there's lots of nice scenes dealing with loss and grief and the smaller character moments. Whilst the film doesn't follow through with this and does go for something of a 'reset', but it actually does something much cleverer than I was expecting. It's use of time travel and causality feels very fresh and different to the usual pop culture takes and I really enjoyed that. So the events of Infinity War still had/ have consequences, which is great. Nothing feels cheaper than putting all the toys back in the box. It's also a film that holds it's runtime, never feeling like its sagging or dragging under its own weight. I really enjoyed it and I hope the next 10 years are as good ... and that they don't fall into the trap the comics have, of building up to a big event routinely,and that we get something different!