Warning: This review contains veryminorspoilers highlighting the broad strokes and highlights ofAvengers: Endgame
Is this the last of theAvengersmovies as we know them?Avengers: Endgameseems to seems to indicate as much, setting the table (in surprising and satisfying fashion) for a very different cinematic future for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
The last time audiences saw the Avengers assembled was in 2018’s blockbusterAvengers:Infinity War, which ended on a heckuva cliffhanger — evil super-villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) managed to gather all six infinity stones, snapped his fingers (while wearing the all-powerful, world-ending Infinity Gauntlet) and seemingly turned half the world’s population into dust — including a few key superheroes.
The end ofAvengers: Infinity Warsaw fan-loved characters like: Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) — not to mention a traumatic ending for Zoe Saldana’s Gamora — turn to dust and drift away in pieces.
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Endgameopens right whereInfinity Warleft off, with a couple of reminder scenes showing where certain characters who didnotturn to dust ended up, like Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd).
Barton loses his entire family, while Ant-Man is stuck suspended in the quantum realm. What’s left of the Avengers — Tony Stark/Iron Man, (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans), Natasha/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Thor (Chris Hemsworth),Black Panther‘s Okoye (Danai Gurira), Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), War Machine (Don Cheadle), Nebula (Karen Gillan), Bruce Banner/the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) — and the remainder of the world’s population are suffering greatly from the shocking losses at Thanos’ hand. Now what? How do they right Thanos’ wrongs?
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The answer — an expertly-executed, love letter to Marvel and its famous characters — is not what most moviegoers will expect. A new hero mission is devised, one that takes time (roughly 180 minutes of runtime, to be specific). The overarching goal in broad strokes, to avoid giving too much away, is to save the universe from Thanos’s evil once and for all. And although it involves super powers, space travel, and curious manipulations of time itself, things play out in surprising and thrilling fashion.
Marvel fans who’ve been following these characters throughout all 21 films before this one will enjoy the carefully-crafted callbacks and countless easter eggs from previous films. Watching favorite Marvel superhero characters interact in new, different and moving ways does not disappoint. Several of the film’s greatest scenes are laugh out loud funny (Hemsworth’s Thor stealing much of the thunder here, pun intended), along with a few that will bring tears to some eyes. This movie is a must-see for die-hard fans, and really a must-see-as-soon-as-possible to experience all the special surprises spoiler-free.
Endgamedefinitively closes a few chapters in theAvengerssaga in highly satisfying fashion. It is a tremendously entertaining intergalactic trip.
Avengers: Endgameopens in theaters April 26.
source: people.com
