Infinity War Avengers: Infinity War SPOILER User Review Thread

[Iceman]

True, she needs to be aware of a threat to deflect it.

However, she was able to deflect weapons that incapacitated , severely wounded and nearly killed Vision who is part Vibranium, (although clearly a lot less than many believed).

The same is true for Dr Strange. He's mortal, but capable of standing up to Thanos ( for a short time) much better than Hulk did at the start of IW. For all his durability he got flattened very quickly.

I don't think inherent durabilty should be the main determinant of a character's power tier.

Oh yeah, like you say, it isn't all. Many of the most powerful happen to be glass cannons because the highest tier powers often aren't related to strength or bodily powers which are going to have limited range. Mind powers for eg can affect every vulnerable being in a planet/universe - extreme telepathic or telekinetic powers like comics Phoenix, Xavier (Onslaught), Scarlet Witch etc and don't require a durable body to house those powers. But when you're doing aa analysis/comparison you'd note inherent durability as the base, then add on things you mention like deflection abilities (some heroes could be strong on both meaning double protection). Vision for eg can tank seriously heavy hits with his vibranium body but can also just go intangible or fly to avoid getting hit.

 

[Iceman]

I’d add aswell, this is the best representation of Thor in an Avengers movie. I felt like in the first two he didn’t really get his due but he totally does in this one. He was the standout Avenger for sure.

The standout performance from a non Avenger was definitely Josh Brolin’s Thanos. It’s one of the best villain performances in a CBM imo.

One of the best villain performances in any film I can think of.

 

[BH/HHH]

One of the best villain performances in any film I can think of.

Yeah he’s definitely up there.

 

[spiderral]

Did anyone else get annoyed at how LITTLE everyone else reacted to characters dying/fading into ash?

I expected Cap to scream out when Bucky started fading away, I felt really disappointed when Tony didn't panic like hell and start shouting when he lost Peter in his arms.

I know most of the reacting characters were in shock, but if it was me watching a loved one fade away like that, the last thing I'd do is be silent about it.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

I saw this film today at 4pm GMT and it did not disappoint (well, apart from the lack of Agents of SHIELD characters). Never have i seen a film with such a breakneck pace, and that manages to fit in a massive ensemble of characters so seamlessly that each feel like they contribute something to the narrative.

This film was full of so many great moments that I think will be seen as some of the greatest scenes in the MCU: the opening fight between Hulk and Thanos, the Avengers v Guardians of the Galaxy battle, all of the fight scenes on Wakanda... Also possibly the most quotable film of the lot; loved the Stan Lee bus driver cameo, Peter Parker's comment about there being 'no friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man without the neighbourhood', Drax talking about mastering the art of standing incredibly still that he becomes visible and Mantis undermining it with a cheery hello, that 'It will kill you', 'Will I die?', 'That's what killing you means' between Eitri and Thor...

I'm still shocked and confused by that ending and post-credits scene. How can Black Panther, Spider-Man and majority of the Guardians of the Galaxy have turned to dust when Spider-Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy have upcoming films slated for release, and Black Panther will almost certainly get a sequel? How can Nick Fury and Maria Hill turn to dust when they are both supposed to be in Avengers 4? I'd understand if Thanos didn't have the Time Stone but he does...

Also: was that the Red Skull on the planet with the Soul Stone? Because it looked a lot like him, and it took me by surprise.

 

[Mjölnir]

Did anyone else get annoyed at how LITTLE everyone else reacted to characters dying/fading into ash?

I expected Cap to scream out when Bucky started fading away, I felt really disappointed when Tony didn't panic like hell and start shouting when he lost Peter in his arms.

I know most of the reacting characters were in shock, but if it was me watching a loved one fade away like that, the last thing I'd do is be silent about it.

I don't think it sounds like Tony at all to run around and scream. That's just not how the character behaves even when he panics (and he's panicked before). I think RDJ acted that part brilliantly and it felt real for how the character has been.

In devastation and utter defeat, as they knew all hope was gone, it makes more sense for most of them to act like that than to run around and scream based on my experiences. Of course we all deal with things differently so it's easy to see why opinions will vary.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

I don't think it sounds like Tony at all to run around and scream. That's just not how the character behaves even when he panics (and he's panicked before). I think RDJ acted that part brilliantly and it felt real for how the character has been.

In devastation and utter defeat, as they knew all hope was gone, it makes more sense for most of them to act like that than to run around and scream based on my experiences. Of course we all deal with things differently so it's easy to see why opinions will vary.

I agree, and I thought it helped further emphasise the loss anyway that the only other person remaining on Titan was somebody Tony Stark barely knew, and had just lost someone close herself (IE a sister) - Nebula.

 

[Thanoss]

One question. That no one never asked
How is tony stark is getting off titan??
His suite is in ruin even if not he could not travel in cosmos
The ship is broken
Doctor strange is ashes so no teleports even zo
I think he couldnt teleport/travel so far on that distance
So?

 

[Ragna-Rocket]

Saw it this morning, and all I can say is damn. Just...damn. The whole thing just starts hard and heavy with Thanos ransacking the ship the Asgardians were all on at the end of Ragnarok. I expected to see at least a scene of Thanos entering the ship, but no - first thing you see are Asgardian bodies lying on the floor, Thanos crushing Thor's head, Loki held captive being questioned on the whereabouts of the Tesseract, with Thor being unaware that Loki took it before Asgard was destroyed.

You have a hammerless Thor, no match for Thanos in combat, completely crushes Hulk to the point that Hulk is so afraid of what Thanos was able to do to him, and the beat down he gave him, that he wouldn't come out when Banner wanted to change.

I was so glad to see that after Thor got Stormbreaker, that we got some of the true God power when he was battling the Outriders on Wakanda. In fact, Thor's arrival on Wakanda as a last minute save when all hope is lost, as Silvestri's classic Avengers theme is playing gave me goosebumps. We also hear the Avengers theme when a shadowed Steve Rogers catches Proxima Midnight's spear, and he, Falcon and Widow join the fight in Scotland to protect Vision and Wanda.

I liked that Ross was back briefly in video form, even if it was just Cap telling him that he wasn't asking Ross' permission to stop Thanos.

Thor to Cap: "Oh...this is Groot"
Groot: "I am Groot"
Cap: "I am Steve Rogers"

The above exchange had me laughing pretty hard.

Gamora knowing the location of the Soul Stone was a surprise. As was the Red Skull being on the planet it was located on.

I'm hoping Thor sticks around for a while, it would be sad to see him go now he has a new hammer, new eye, new friends.

When Strange said he went forward in time to see all possible outcomes of how they could stop Thanos, I thought he'd at least tell Tony and the guys what that one plan that worked actually was, but maybe if he did, the first part wouldn't have worked. Obviously Tony staying alive is the key to what Strange saw working.

I did find Quill trying to act just as badass as Thor to the point of copying his accent and deepening his voice hilarious.

All in all, walking out of that theatre screen, literally everyone was silent. Usually you'd get a few people laughing on the way out, discussing their favourite scenes - this time? Silence. It weighed that heavily on them.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

One question. That no one never asked
How is tony stark is getting off titan??
His suite is in ruin even if not he could not travel in cosmos
The ship is broken
Doctor strange is ashes so no teleports even zo
I think he couldnt teleport/travel so far on that distance
So?

If someone travels back in time, they could prevent him going into space in the first place...

 

[Mjölnir]

One question. That no one never asked
How is tony stark is getting off titan??
His suite is in ruin even if not he could not travel in cosmos
The ship is broken
Doctor strange is ashes so no teleports even zo
I think he couldnt teleport/travel so far on that distance
So?

Thor does have control of the Bifrost thanks to Stormbreaker, which he used to transport himself, Rocket and Groot from Nidavellir to Earth.

Now they don't know that Stark is on Titan so that's not necessarily an immediate solution, but the heroes do have near teleportation available.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I'll keep my review short.

It's the same formula as the first two Avengers movies - but only half of it.

The first two Avengers movies introduce the characters, leave them in disarray after a mid-act set piece, then have them reunite for the climax.

Infinity War is exactly the same, it just ends with the Avengers in disarray point. The second part, which I'm guessing will be called The New Avengers, will be the 'regroup and win the day' part of the story.

It's the same stuff, just bigger and longer. Better? Don't think so.

Definitely entertaining though.

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

One question. That no one never asked
How is tony stark is getting off titan??
His suite is in ruin even if not he could not travel in cosmos
The ship is broken
Doctor strange is ashes so no teleports even zo
I think he couldnt teleport/travel so far on that distance
So?

Nebula must have arrived on Titan somehow. Did she use a spaceship?

 

[DalekbusterFitz]

I'm hoping Thor sticks around for a while, it would be sad to see him go now he has a new hammer, new eye, new friends.

It would be great to see him join the Guardians of the Galaxy films. Maybe an appearance in Volume 3, Peter Quill leaves at the end of V3 (I very much doubt he'll stay a pile of dust) and Thor takes over his leadership role from Volume 4 onwards.

 

[MarvelRudi]

First time post...i had to talk about this film...it was just awesome!!!

Thanos was everything i wanted in a villain...he was menacing...strong...and a true threat to the heroes. I liked the fact that they showed Thanos taking hits from the start by Hulk before he got defeated...Thanos wasn't all invincible...usually in movies at the start the villain is always shown so powerful that they can easily dispatch the good guy without really taking any hits...that's why i had alot problems with Ragnorok...it was so inconsistent. With Hela she was shown so powerful at the start but at the end of the movie she seemed slightly weaker than what she was hyped up to be.

My standout characters were:

Doctor Strange - He's interaction with Tony and Spiderman were great to watch. It was nice to see he was an expert with his spells.

Gamora - her complicated relationship with Thanos was well developed. Zoe acted so well when Nebula was getting tortured.

Ebony Maw - wish he was more in the movie...was slightly disappointed with how he got killed...this villain needed a better way to be killed...being sucked out into space was rather anti-climactic.

Some minor quibbles that i had was Black Widow was strong enough to hurt couple of the black order people...i just couldn't buy into that...these people are henchmen of Thanos...it really weakened them as villain if a human like Black Widow can outsmart them.

Not enough Captain America...he's my favourite avenger from the movies...he was wasted...they spent too much time showing Thor making his new weapon...i would have cut all of that out and spent more time with the Cap and Black Panther. For me Thor is not interesting enough character to follow on an avenger movie. I guess they were making it up for shortchanging him in the previous avengers movie. I don't know i just don't like the new jokey Thor...i mean when he was talking to Rocket about all the people he lost...it seemed as though he was making jokes...i don't know if it's Hemsworth dialogue delivery but to me it came across as slightly jokey...Thor lost everyone...it shud have had more of an impact.

I'm going to watch this movie again to see if i missed out on anything. The Russo's done an excellent job handling all these characters and making it all coherent. Well done to them. Anyways my rating is 8.5/10

 

[Lookhowfunnyiam]

Just got back from seeing it, wow! It was incredible. I cannot wait for Avengers 4.

Pros

- Thanos was a great villain and what I didn’t expect was to like him so much. By that I mean I totally got his motivations and even felt for him in the softer moments
- the humour was greatly balanced, only there when necessary
- the action scenes were breathtaking
- the Red Skull appearing, wow did that shock me. I wasn’t expecting that at all and it blew me away.
- Seeing characters interact like Quill and Stark, Peter and Strange, etc. Just a joy.
All this and so much more...

Cons aka Minor nitpicks

- the CG for the female child of Thanos was awful, looked like a video game.
- I wanted more Cap, by that I mean dialogue, he didn’t say much. But that’s it.
- Banner not been able to turn into Hulk got a little silly
- Post Credit scene teasingly Captain Marvel. I get it and she’ll probably be in Avengers 4 but why would he contact her and not try one of the Avengers? It made no sense imo

I mean, I get your other points (pro and con) but that Captain Marvel point seems unfair to me when this is our first in-film hint at her. Obviously there’s a reason that her movie is set in the past, and obviously there’s a reason why if her story is set in the past that she hasn’t been around in six movies already. Presumably there’s a reason why that pager didn’t get used in Avengers 1 or 2 or anything else, and a reason for Fury using it now. It doesn’t not make sense just by virtue of you not hearing the answer yet, otherwise literally every post-credit scene in MCU history doesn’t make sense.

 

[beenie123]

Alright just got back. It's a very comicbooky movie for better or worse. Fans of the franchise will love it, fans of certain characters will be entertained but probably leave with a what? reaction at the end like a couple of friends I went with. Almost anyone who've only seen just 1 or 2 of these movies will probably be confused.

Thanos as a threat/villain is done well and certainly amongst the best marvel villains but the personal conflict, motivation and influence that Killmonger had in Black Panther still makes him the much better villain for me. You got your usual character interactions moments that the audience mainly came for in this and some are done better justice than others. Lastly there are a lot of action sequences to keep you engaged throughout and I mostly enjoyed them.

With all that said, while I enjoyed it as a fan of these characters seeing them interact, as a self-contained film it doesn't make my top 5 in Marvel, probably put it at 7. They tried to sell it well but I just found Thanos' motivation and reasoning for 'balancing' the universe to be ridiculous and that made me lose any kind of understanding for the character. I couldn't buy his relationship and 'love' for gamora as a result and as bad-ass as he came across that kept me away from caring about anything he did.

There were way too many plot conveniences in the movie that It took me out a few times. X person is about to get killed/hurt but suddenly Y person comes in the nick of time at the right moment to save them. Now this happens in almost every comicbook movie and normally I can give leeway with it happening 2, 3 or even 4 times but it reached a different level in this one. The worse of all plot conveniences though was Starlord deciding to lose it after learning of gamora's death just as the team almost had the gauntlet when just some moments earlier he was willing to kill her as she had asked him to if it meant stopping Thanos from achieving his goal. It was just poor writing and could've been handled better.

I still don't like the thing Marvel does in these movies where characters are wise-cracking and having chit-chats in the middle on life/death situations during intense battles but I guess that's a more personal thing. A few certain characters were pretty much useless and them not being there would have made little to no difference on the plot. But that is probably nit-picking at this point and for what it was with the amount of characters, it was still fairly entertaining and will certainly please fans of the franchise, I just wished I cared more about Thanos' motivation for the stones. Overall its a 7.5 for me

P.s I had no issue with the ending in the context of the story that unfolded outside of the convenience of only the original avengers surviving.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Overall, quite possibly the best Marvel movie. Certainly the best villain, and the most effective in scope. Also, the Russos have a better understanding of tonal balance than most of the other people working at Marvel, so they don't ruin key moments with jokes.

Weirdly, when you consider just how long in the making much of this was, there were some things in the movie, mainly relationships, that I thought could have been set up better. Most obviously, when you consider how much emotional weight hangs on Wanda and the Vision's relationship, something that had very little time devoted to it and basically happened between movies. The actors do a surprisingly effective job of selling it, though. And also, everybody knows that Wanda is the only one that can destroy the Infinity Stone, for some reason.

Also, and while this wouldn't have been an issue for me (and other people who post in this forum) either way since I know the Infinity Gauntlet story, when you consider that Loki's death in the early going packs a surprising punch and is accompanied by the "no resurrections" crack that tries to sell the idea that This Time It's For Realz, by the end of the movie the body count is so extreme that not even the most credulous viewer could ever think that this will end with anything other than a full reset. Paradoxically, that lowers the stakes (though I expect we'll see some real casualties among the survivors of Thanos' purge).

 

[kguillou]

Just got out.

What the **** did i just watch.

10/10.

 

[mclay18]

There were some terrific scenes in the film, but I was left feeling frustrated and ticked off by the time the credits rolled. The main sticking point is that most of the character deaths don't have an impact, because we'll likely see them again in future MCU films (i.e. Spider-man).

Most of the character interaction was a sheer joy, i.e. Tony and Strange and Thor and Rocket. Josh Brolin made for an imposing and conflicted Thanos, he didn't disappoint. But considering the 'reset' made by palette cleanser Black Panther, IW disappointed me. And the action scenes mostly blended together after a while.

What really ticked me off was the fact that Marvel openly lied about IW being a self-contained movie. It's not. It's a tease for Avengers 4.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

That ending felt like the damn Sopranos finale. Perfect example of leaving them wanting more. Marvel did it again. 10s across the board.

It literally felt like you were watching a comic book.

 

[Saturius]

I thought it was really good. All the different character interactions were gold and well worth the wait.

Thanos was incredible. A great performance and really well written character.

There were a LOT of characters so a lot of it came off really vignette"y" which was a little annoying, but it cudn't be helped I supposed. But the pathos of the film was surprisingly very touching and effective.

I'm curious why the Russo's considered Thor a main character here. I don't know how much screen time he got, but I certainly didn't come away necessarily thinking he was. I also found his side quest the least entertaining. But it was nice to see him as a complete badass at the end.

And man, Evans(Cap) and Johannsen(Widow) really felt so bland and inconsequential. They really had no presence at all here. I don't know what happened with them. Both felt like a very phoned in performance. Hopefully they bring it in the next film cause in this one they felt lazy.

I think it's good that only the core original Avengers are left. I really feel like that the next film will give them the focus they need as a unit, which will be all the more rewarding. I like that this phase will sorta end on the originals. Hopefully the focus on the original Avengers will rectify the problems I had with Widow and Cap in this film.

 

[JIVE]

Oh my god. What did I just watch? Red skull? Gamora dying and possibly in soul world? Thor being a total badass and wounding Thanos with six stones. Wanda killing Vision - that was heartbreaking. The strategy fighting him on Titan to get the glove off. Wow. Indeed, there was little character development and the story picked up very fast, but all is easily forgiven in the large scope of things.

It seems Dr. Strange proceeded with the events that lead to them succeeding. Cannot wait for the sequel.

10/10

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Am I the only one who sorta found Quill annoying in this movie?

 

[Bim]

Just got out.

What the **** did i just watch.

10/10.

Ditto