This is a film on my list that I need to put an asterisk on at the end. While I’m not saying it isn’t a good movie—-it is—-it’s kind of more than a movie in a way. It’s an event. This is a culmination of 10 years of planning by Marvel that actually sticks the landing and that is something that should be applauded because we’ve seen other studios try to attempt the same thing that Marvel has done in a thoughtless, cynical fashion and failed in real time. Hell, it’s still going on . As a movie, Avengers: Endgame is solid, but nothing super revolutionary in terms of its actual film-making. It is, however, revolutionary in the sense that I can’t really think of another time I’ve seen a film with an audience where we all felt so invested and people were cheering. I think the scene where Captain America gets that hammer is so incredibly satisfying because it’s been building since 2014’s Age of Ultron and it is so much more rewarding for us fans who have been sticking with Marvel from the beginning, trusting them that even when they fail, they are trying to make good movies that audiences will enjoy.
Avengers: Endgame is the true definition of a crowd-pleaser. I was completely wrapped up in the film in the theater and even my girlfriend who has seen like 2.5 Iron man films, Infinity War, still enjoyed the hell out of it without knowing all the lore and payoffs that this movie has in almost every scene. So that’s saying something about how it just works as a classic American blockbuster film-making.
Simply put, a fun movie that delivers on many characters' arcs spanning over an entire decade that could have been so awful and mishandled and just wasn’t. Kudos to everyone involved. You made something that truly the world was excited to see and went to the theaters to enjoy together and we need more movies like that before every multiplex is reduced to dust and rubble.
