The first 10 minutes are quite action packed, although more on the theatrical drama side than fast action for the most part. These early scenes do a decent job of establishing Thanos as a potentially awesome antagonist – significantly stronger than the Hulk and wielding better control of the energetic world than the magician that is Loki – Thor’s adoptive brother and the main antagonist from the second Avengers movie.
This sets the tone nicely for what’s to come in the rest of the movie, which generally has a higher quality and better consistency of action and much better plot than previous Avengers movies.
This movie has some great humour in places. The action is a bit muddled like the previous Avengers movies, but is better coordinated such that this is clearly the best of them thus far. It’s not quite on a par with the first Thor movie. It even falls slightly short of lesser but still Decent movies in the MCU like Iron Man, Doctor Strange and Black Panther. But it’s got the most clear direction, focus and script coordination of all the groupie Avengers movies thus far. As such I rate it Above Average, which is still an accomplishment.
To say this movie ends on a cliffhanger is probably an understatement. The whole movie can be likened to hanging on the edge of a cliff, then it ends with a big splatter where half of everyone in the universe instantly dies (at the click of Thanos’ fingers). Quite a strange negative note to end on – probably setting us up for the next Avengers movie, called Endgame, released in 2019 – a year when something else, no less depressing, begins to be unveilled in the real world, spawning rumours of similar levels of deaths due any time now. Coincidence much?
As usual, in this Avengers movie there’s a large number of superhero characters working together. The team battling Thanos – the main antagonist, played by Josh Brolin with the help of ample CGI and makeup – includes: Tony Stark aka Iron Man played by Robert Downey Jr; Captain America played by Chris Evans; Bruce Banner aka The Hulk played by Mark Ruffalo; Thor played by Chris Hemsworth whose scenes are probably the best of all scenes in this movie; Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow (played by Scarlett Johansson); Spider-Man played by Tom Holland; The Scarlet Witch played by Elizabeth Olsen – her powers are pretty cool too, but seem underplayed by this movie; Vision played by Paul Bettany whose powers also seem underplayed; Doctor Strange played by Benedict Cumberbatch; Chris Pratt as Star-Lord along with the rest of his team from the Guardians Of The Galaxy movie series; and Chadwick Boseman as the Black Panther along with several of his colleagues from the Wakanda. And that’s not nearly all the significant actors in this movie but we’ll be here all day if we try to name them all so that’ll do for now – its easy to look up the rest of them, or just view the poster or watch the trailer and see who they’re feel play the most significant roles here.