Plot Summary – The Avengers must stop Thanos, an intergalactic warlord, from getting his hands on all the infinity stones. However, Thanos is prepared to go to any lengths to carry out his insane plan.

I don’t think I can review this movie without spoilers so please don’t read it if you haven’t for some reason watched Avengers: Infinity War.

WHY DID I GIVE THIS 4.5 THE FIRST TIME I LOGGED IT. WHY? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS MOVIE?

Rant over.

★★★★★ 

Rewatched on 11 May 2021

Infinity War had a lot on its shoulders. It had to balance 23 superheroes, in an action-packed adventure that also developed each character. I don’t think most people who critique this film take the into account. You had 18 movies before this building up to this moment. It would have been so easy to fumble at the finish line. It’s so easy to make a bad movie, especially when there’s this much pressure and this much hype. If you weren’t into Marvel at the time or forgot, the hype for this movie was unbelievable. It was unlike anything anyone had ever seen. It was 10 years of films building up to one epic showdown and unlike Harry Potter, there are no books, we genuinely didn’t know how it was going to end. The reason I’m prefacing this review so much is that, to deliver what they delivered after there was so much hype, it’s unbelievable. Because not only is Infinity War a great action-packed adventure, but also a really well-made character drama. Tell me one movie where there over 20 main characters and each of them feel like they got their moment to shine. It’s insane. Generally in a film review, I like to talk about stuff like direction and shot composition and nerdy things like that but Infinity War feels bigger than that. How do you judge something with the metrics of a normal movie when it transcends all of that? Infinity War was something else man. And that ending. That ending was so bold and so unique to what the MCU had done before. I remember my brother was at our grandparents’ house during the release of this film and he went to watch it with my uncle and around 1 AM the day it released, I remember getting a video from my uncle of my little brother crying. Not crying, bawling because his favourite superhero, Spider-Man had died. A Marvel film had that much impact. It was a genuinely shocking and devastating ending. Thanos is one of the greatest villains to be put to screen, merely because in the end of his film, he wins. How rarely do we get to see that. He has so many moments where you genuinely feel for him. His killing Gamora has got to be one of the most devastating scenes in the franchise, cause he has to admit that he actually loved someone. I could go on and on and on about Infinity War man. The fight scene in Wakanda. Perfect. The way they got so many unlikely pairings together for banter. Brilliant. But what makes Infinity War so special is that through all the hype and all the action, you care. You care about these characters and it hurts when Peter Parker fades away in Tony’s hands or T’Challa turns to dust as he tries to help Okoye get up. That’s what makes Infinity War special.