Avengers: Endgame

Wacko, here it is. The final installment of the silly-money earning, big screen, long-form TV series that is Marvel's Avengers. This is the End(of the)game. But is it really? Lots of stuff to say here, mostly positive, some negative, but I reckon it's nigh on impossible to write about this without blabbing plot points so I'll save the nitty gritty for the podcast.

Instead, let me just tell you the 3 hour run-time pretty much flew past, I teared up three times (once unashamedly), there's a nice little nod to an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and another to The Big Lebowski!

Regarding the film itself, the central plan of how to undo the Infinity War damage is crowd-pleasingly clever and the six original Avengers get their moment to shine, being completely 'dust-free' at the end of the previous film.

The final act of the film is fairly epic as these things go - extremely well balanced between pathos and bluster. And no need to worry about this being the 'end'. Why stop milking this cash cow when Endgame has taken nearly 2 billion American dollars in about a week and a half!?

Ok, that's about all I can muster without accidentally letting slip that Thanos wins again or something like that. Oh, shit. Sorry. Of course he doesn't. Or does he?

See also: Two of the best Marvel films, The Russos' Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014) and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok (2017).

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