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I guess they were tired after fighting against thousands of aliens.
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I guess they were tired after fighting against thousands of aliens.
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BTW.... i am giving this a perfect 10. Why ? Because of the ambition of this project. Not many directors could have delivered this movie. Russos did.
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I did read IW is "exhausting" but hey if action movie is not exhausting at least to some degree than it's not doing its job
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Tell me what did you think of Thor, please?
Great to to know that! And that Thor was amazing it's a plus!
Yes he was.
He was fantastic in Ragnarok and now in Infinity War. Can't believe he topped Tony's place in my heart.
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Who gives the best performance? Seems Brolin is the consensus. I'm impressed with RDJ and that's just from what I saw in marketing
I think Pratt gave his most layered performance yet as Quill. From his usual goofball antics to palpable anguish.
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One reviewer pointed that some things can be repetitive to some audience and to some extent I kinda agree with him/her.
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Thanks! That's awesome!
He most likely used the Mind Gem (which grants it's wearer telepathy and other mind powers) to read Tony's mind and learn what his last name was.
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Okay, review time. What I'll do is put a long plot synopsis, and folks can ask specific questions.
First, the film totally delivers on its promise, but there were no cheers at the end as it finishes on a very sombre note.
This is the MCU's equivalent of the Empire STrikes Back, it's long but never drags. I think it reaches a new height of epic, in comic book films, definitely a one up from Civil War, and it makes Age of Ultron look a bit mediocre in comparison.
It juggles characters really well, but I would say that the best character is Thanos, while the other stand-outs are Strange, Starlord and Spidey. Everyone else has very limited time/dialogue. Thor and the guardians gel really nicely - and Thor is still very much the Thor we saw at the end of Ragnarok, hopeful even in the face of total catastrophe. Cap is very quiet in this one - Tony and Strange have a great dynamic, as their enormous egos collide.
As a summative comment, I would say it's mind-blowing, and more than an Avengers film, it's really a "whole MCU except Hawkeye and Ant-man" film.
However, Thanos is the de facto main character, and he's the best cbm villain since Ledger's Joker. He's better than Hela, because he's better developed and his motivations (while crazy and monstrous) are better explained.
Plot synopsis (just ask if you need more details)
-Film starts with Thanos aboard the Asgardian refugee ship (Thor later says that Thanos killed half his people - and killing half a population is Thanos' MO, so it seems reasonble to assume that half of the refugees escaped). However, Thanos threatens to kill Thor (frying him with the power stone) unless Loki hands over the tessaract. Hulk attacks and gets KO'd after a short fight, a mortally wounded Heimdall channels Bifrost energy to send Hulk back to earth, before Thanos finishes him off.
Thanos then takes the tessaract/space stone, kills Loki and then uses the power stone to blow up the ship.
- On earth Banner crash-lands in the sanctum of Dr Strange, who summons Tony Stark and they discuss the coming threat. The Black Order arrive, via spaceship and fight with Tony, Strange, and Spidey - Banner cannot change to Hulk
Strange is taken (sorry I don't know all the Black order's names) because the time stone cannot be removed from him. I think by Ebony Maw, but Tony and Spidey stow away abord the ship and are able to breach the hull sending Ebony out into space, while freeing Strange.
There's some great dialogue between Tony and Strange, Cumberbatch and RDJ really play off each other nicely.
Meanwhile the Guardians of the Galaxy respond to the Asgardians' distress signal and come across Thor floating in space. They bring him aboard and there's some typical guardians hilarity as Quill is clearly intimidated by Thor.
I found this bit really funny, and nicely in keeping with the general guardians' tone of silliness - and post-Ragnarok Thor totally fits in.
Scarlet Witch and Vision are attacked in Scotland, by a couple of Black Order thugs. If Big Thor and Surfer are reading this, Scarlet Witch needs to go up a power tier, based on her feats in this movie.
Anyway, Falcon, Widow and Cap show up and save the day.
Gamora's childhood abduction is shown in flashbacks - it's quite emotional. The relationship between Thanos and Gamora is well done, and convincing - which sets up what happens later on. She makes Peter promise to kill her if she's taken by Thanos, as only she knows the location of the soul stone.
Thor , Rocket and Groot head to a galactic super-forge to make a weapon to kill Thanos (the same place Mjolnir was forged) while the others head to Nowhere. Rocket gives Thor a prosthetic eye.
There's a reunion between Banner, War Machine, Cap, Widow, Vision, Wanda and Falcon, and they give a hologram of Secretary Ross some attitude. They decide to head for Wakanda.
(hey if I leave any bits out, let me know).
Meanwhile Strange, Spidey and Tony crash land on titan (Thanos' homeworld).
The other guardians (Star Lord, Gamora, Drax and Mantis) arrive on nowhere where Thanos is torturing the Collector for the reality stone - but its all an illusion to draw out Gamora, and the whole place has already been destroyed by Thanos, who teleports away with Gamora.
Thanos and Gamora have a chat, and he reveals that he's captured Nebula, and is literally pulling her to pieces, which forces Gamora to reveal the soul stone's location.
In Wakanda, T'Challa and the general give Bucky a new bionic arm.
Gamora and Thanos arrive on a planet whose name escapes me - but its an empty dark ruin. They meet a ghostly Red Skull, who guides them - and he's way better than the Red Skull in TFA. He reveals that to obtain the soul stone Thanos must sacrifice something he loves.
This is the best Thanos moment - because Gamora laughs at him, mocking him because he loves nothing, but he turns to her and reveals that he's been crying, because he actually loves her. This is such an important scene, because it properly establishes Thanos' motivation, and his commitment to it - he's not a 1D maniacal villain (like so many other cbm villains) , but a real believer who thinks he's doing what must be done.
After crashing on Titan, Spidey, Tony and Strange are attacked by Star Lord, Drax and Mantis - after a scrap, they join forces.
Thor, Rocket and Groot arrive at the forge (its a huge space station build around a star) but it's all frozen up. when they enter, they meet a giant dwarf (as in Peter Dinklage but 30 feet tall), who reveals that Thanos arrived well before them, and used the forge to make the infinity gauntlet, before slaughtering all the other giant dwarves and shutting down the forge.
In Wakanda, Cap and co. meet with T'Challa, the plan being to remove the soul stone, so Wanda can destroy it before Thanos arrives.
In Wakanda there's an epic battle between Cap and the other Avengers (Banner in the Hulkbuster), T'Challa and the tribes/Dora Milje against the surviving Black Order punks and Thanos' legions of generic monsters. The monsters are a bit vanilla, really just cannon fodder - but are a lot more threatening than the Ultron drones, or the Chitauri.
Meanwhile, Thor re-starts the forge, and briefly withstands the power of the dying star in order to heat up the metal - Groot uses his arm as the handle of the new weapon. Thor is pretty messed up, but starts calling the new hammer/axe to his hand.
My favorite battle takes place on titan. Thanos shows up, just Thanos and fights all the heroes there, plus Nebula, who manage to restrain him and almost get the gauntlet off him. However, Starlord loses it when he learns Gamora's dead, which allows Thanos to break free.
The resulting fights between Thanos and Strange and Thanos and Tony are great, particulalry the Thanos v Strange fight. But of course, Thanos wins, and severely wounds Stark.
Strange does give Thanos the time stone, so that he spares Tony. But previously Strange had used it to see the future, and the one possible future, out of a million, in which they win. Strange says to Stark (before he turns to ash) that it was the only way, and they're entering the "endgame"
My theory, clearly he saw that the only way they could win was to give Thanos all the stones at that time -which would set into motion the chain of events that will restore the universe in the sequel, for which clearly Tony had to be alive. Thanos also points out that Strange never used the time stone against him , and it was the heroes' greatest weapon (so clearly that's because for the heroes to win he had to NOT use the stone).
Back in Wakanda there's a pitched battle between the various heroes and Thanos' forces, to prevent them from reaching Vision and taking the stone.
Just when the heroes are overwhemed, Thor (and Rocket and Groot) arrive and in a massive power feat, wipes out a big chunk of the monster horde.
Eventually Thanos arrives, and the heroes take him on in a desperate effort to give Wanda enough time to pull free the mind stone and destroy it.
Thanos smashes them one by one, and Wanda manages to hold him off (again, move that lady up a tier) long enough to destroy the mind stone..... but Thanos uses the time stone to move back to just before Wanda destroys it, and takes it.
Thor attacks and buries the bladed edge of the new hammer into Thanos' chest - but as Thanos says, he should have gone for the head, as Thanos snaps his fingers and....
Well, a big chunk of our heroes (Spidey, Star Lord, Strange, T'Challa, Falcon, Bucky, Wanda, Drax, Mantis ) all turn to ash and fade away.
Tony is left, with only Nebula, on titan clutching at the ashes of Spidey (Strange makes that comment about giving Thanos the stone being the only way, and them entering the "endgame" before he fades away).
The last shot of the heroes is Banner (in a damaged Hulkbuster), Thor, Widow, War Machine and Cap, sitting by Buck's ashes - he mumbles "Oh God."
The final shot is Thanos sitting, watching the sunset, a contented smile crossing his face (something he said he would do, to Gamora, during their chat).
Then fade to black and credits, and sombre music.
Post credits is Fury and Hill on Earth, in traffic, they see other people fading away, and then do so themselves, but not before Fury triggers an electronic device (looks like a pager) on which the Captain Marvel symbol appears.
First, the film totally delivers on its promise, but there were no cheers at the end as it finishes on a very sombre note.
This is the MCU's equivalent of the Empire STrikes Back, it's long but never drags. I think it reaches a new height of epic, in comic book films, definitely a one up from Civil War, and it makes Age of Ultron look a bit mediocre in comparison.
It juggles characters really well, but I would say that the best character is Thanos, while the other stand-outs are Strange, Starlord and Spidey. Everyone else has very limited time/dialogue. Thor and the guardians gel really nicely - and Thor is still very much the Thor we saw at the end of Ragnarok, hopeful even in the face of total catastrophe. Cap is very quiet in this one - Tony and Strange have a great dynamic, as their enormous egos collide.
As a summative comment, I would say it's mind-blowing, and more than an Avengers film, it's really a "whole MCU except Hawkeye and Ant-man" film.
However, Thanos is the de facto main character, and he's the best cbm villain since Ledger's Joker. He's better than Hela, because he's better developed and his motivations (while crazy and monstrous) are better explained.
Plot synopsis (just ask if you need more details)
-Film starts with Thanos aboard the Asgardian refugee ship (Thor later says that Thanos killed half his people - and killing half a population is Thanos' MO, so it seems reasonble to assume that half of the refugees escaped). However, Thanos threatens to kill Thor (frying him with the power stone) unless Loki hands over the tessaract. Hulk attacks and gets KO'd after a short fight, a mortally wounded Heimdall channels Bifrost energy to send Hulk back to earth, before Thanos finishes him off.
Thanos then takes the tessaract/space stone, kills Loki and then uses the power stone to blow up the ship.
- On earth Banner crash-lands in the sanctum of Dr Strange, who summons Tony Stark and they discuss the coming threat. The Black Order arrive, via spaceship and fight with Tony, Strange, and Spidey - Banner cannot change to Hulk
Strange is taken (sorry I don't know all the Black order's names) because the time stone cannot be removed from him. I think by Ebony Maw, but Tony and Spidey stow away abord the ship and are able to breach the hull sending Ebony out into space, while freeing Strange.
There's some great dialogue between Tony and Strange, Cumberbatch and RDJ really play off each other nicely.
Meanwhile the Guardians of the Galaxy respond to the Asgardians' distress signal and come across Thor floating in space. They bring him aboard and there's some typical guardians hilarity as Quill is clearly intimidated by Thor.
I found this bit really funny, and nicely in keeping with the general guardians' tone of silliness - and post-Ragnarok Thor totally fits in.
Scarlet Witch and Vision are attacked in Scotland, by a couple of Black Order thugs. If Big Thor and Surfer are reading this, Scarlet Witch needs to go up a power tier, based on her feats in this movie.
Anyway, Falcon, Widow and Cap show up and save the day.
Gamora's childhood abduction is shown in flashbacks - it's quite emotional. The relationship between Thanos and Gamora is well done, and convincing - which sets up what happens later on. She makes Peter promise to kill her if she's taken by Thanos, as only she knows the location of the soul stone.
Thor , Rocket and Groot head to a galactic super-forge to make a weapon to kill Thanos (the same place Mjolnir was forged) while the others head to Nowhere. Rocket gives Thor a prosthetic eye.
There's a reunion between Banner, War Machine, Cap, Widow, Vision, Wanda and Falcon, and they give a hologram of Secretary Ross some attitude. They decide to head for Wakanda.
(hey if I leave any bits out, let me know).
Meanwhile Strange, Spidey and Tony crash land on titan (Thanos' homeworld).
The other guardians (Star Lord, Gamora, Drax and Mantis) arrive on nowhere where Thanos is torturing the Collector for the reality stone - but its all an illusion to draw out Gamora, and the whole place has already been destroyed by Thanos, who teleports away with Gamora.
Thanos and Gamora have a chat, and he reveals that he's captured Nebula, and is literally pulling her to pieces, which forces Gamora to reveal the soul stone's location.
In Wakanda, T'Challa and the general give Bucky a new bionic arm.
Gamora and Thanos arrive on a planet whose name escapes me - but its an empty dark ruin. They meet a ghostly Red Skull, who guides them - and he's way better than the Red Skull in TFA. He reveals that to obtain the soul stone Thanos must sacrifice something he loves.
This is the best Thanos moment - because Gamora laughs at him, mocking him because he loves nothing, but he turns to her and reveals that he's been crying, because he actually loves her. This is such an important scene, because it properly establishes Thanos' motivation, and his commitment to it - he's not a 1D maniacal villain (like so many other cbm villains) , but a real believer who thinks he's doing what must be done.
After crashing on Titan, Spidey, Tony and Strange are attacked by Star Lord, Drax and Mantis - after a scrap, they join forces.
Thor, Rocket and Groot arrive at the forge (its a huge space station build around a star) but it's all frozen up. when they enter, they meet a giant dwarf (as in Peter Dinklage but 30 feet tall), who reveals that Thanos arrived well before them, and used the forge to make the infinity gauntlet, before slaughtering all the other giant dwarves and shutting down the forge.
In Wakanda, Cap and co. meet with T'Challa, the plan being to remove the soul stone, so Wanda can destroy it before Thanos arrives.
In Wakanda there's an epic battle between Cap and the other Avengers (Banner in the Hulkbuster), T'Challa and the tribes/Dora Milje against the surviving Black Order punks and Thanos' legions of generic monsters. The monsters are a bit vanilla, really just cannon fodder - but are a lot more threatening than the Ultron drones, or the Chitauri.
Meanwhile, Thor re-starts the forge, and briefly withstands the power of the dying star in order to heat up the metal - Groot uses his arm as the handle of the new weapon. Thor is pretty messed up, but starts calling the new hammer/axe to his hand.
My favorite battle takes place on titan. Thanos shows up, just Thanos and fights all the heroes there, plus Nebula, who manage to restrain him and almost get the gauntlet off him. However, Starlord loses it when he learns Gamora's dead, which allows Thanos to break free.
The resulting fights between Thanos and Strange and Thanos and Tony are great, particulalry the Thanos v Strange fight. But of course, Thanos wins, and severely wounds Stark.
Strange does give Thanos the time stone, so that he spares Tony. But previously Strange had used it to see the future, and the one possible future, out of a million, in which they win. Strange says to Stark (before he turns to ash) that it was the only way, and they're entering the "endgame"
My theory, clearly he saw that the only way they could win was to give Thanos all the stones at that time -which would set into motion the chain of events that will restore the universe in the sequel, for which clearly Tony had to be alive. Thanos also points out that Strange never used the time stone against him , and it was the heroes' greatest weapon (so clearly that's because for the heroes to win he had to NOT use the stone).
Back in Wakanda there's a pitched battle between the various heroes and Thanos' forces, to prevent them from reaching Vision and taking the stone.
Just when the heroes are overwhemed, Thor (and Rocket and Groot) arrive and in a massive power feat, wipes out a big chunk of the monster horde.
Eventually Thanos arrives, and the heroes take him on in a desperate effort to give Wanda enough time to pull free the mind stone and destroy it.
Thanos smashes them one by one, and Wanda manages to hold him off (again, move that lady up a tier) long enough to destroy the mind stone..... but Thanos uses the time stone to move back to just before Wanda destroys it, and takes it.
Thor attacks and buries the bladed edge of the new hammer into Thanos' chest - but as Thanos says, he should have gone for the head, as Thanos snaps his fingers and....
Well, a big chunk of our heroes (Spidey, Star Lord, Strange, T'Challa, Falcon, Bucky, Wanda, Drax, Mantis ) all turn to ash and fade away.
Tony is left, with only Nebula, on titan clutching at the ashes of Spidey (Strange makes that comment about giving Thanos the stone being the only way, and them entering the "endgame" before he fades away).
The last shot of the heroes is Banner (in a damaged Hulkbuster), Thor, Widow, War Machine and Cap, sitting by Buck's ashes - he mumbles "Oh God."
The final shot is Thanos sitting, watching the sunset, a contented smile crossing his face (something he said he would do, to Gamora, during their chat).
Then fade to black and credits, and sombre music.
Post credits is Fury and Hill on Earth, in traffic, they see other people fading away, and then do so themselves, but not before Fury triggers an electronic device (looks like a pager) on which the Captain Marvel symbol appears.
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Pretty good. I rate it 8-9/10
Spoilers on some of the rumours I've read the past few months:
No Coulson, no SHIELD, no Hank Pym, no Janet Van Dye, no Hela, No Captain Marvel (pretty sure there weren't 40+ heroes in final fight either)
Strange doesn't rewind time
Wanda doesn't alter reality
Red Skull appears
Gamora is indeed the key to Soul Stone (I remember people calling this fake)
Who dies: Heimdall, Loki, Black Order, Vision, Gamora.
Xandar has already been destroyed by the time the movie opens, Thanos already has the power stone.
Casualties of the Gauntlet: Groot, Drax, Mantis, Star Lord, Spider-man T.T, Strange, Black Panther, Wanda, Bucky, Maria Hill, Fury (but not before sending a signal to Captain Marvel (after credits scene)
(they just turn into ash and crumble, some almost immediately, some taking longer than others)
The gauntlet looks destroyed after Thanos uses it.
Some plot holes here and there though.
Spoilers on some of the rumours I've read the past few months:
No Coulson, no SHIELD, no Hank Pym, no Janet Van Dye, no Hela, No Captain Marvel (pretty sure there weren't 40+ heroes in final fight either)
Strange doesn't rewind time
Wanda doesn't alter reality
Red Skull appears
Gamora is indeed the key to Soul Stone (I remember people calling this fake)
Who dies: Heimdall, Loki, Black Order, Vision, Gamora.
Xandar has already been destroyed by the time the movie opens, Thanos already has the power stone.
Casualties of the Gauntlet: Groot, Drax, Mantis, Star Lord, Spider-man T.T, Strange, Black Panther, Wanda, Bucky, Maria Hill, Fury (but not before sending a signal to Captain Marvel (after credits scene)
(they just turn into ash and crumble, some almost immediately, some taking longer than others)
The gauntlet looks destroyed after Thanos uses it.
Some plot holes here and there though.
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I'm also giving it a perfect 10.
None of the story threads were weak, they were all so perfectly cohesive and interesting in their own right.
Every character was handled so damn well. I went in without any spoilers and got some damned awesome surprises.
The last 5 minutes has just emotionally drained me. So many of them...
The humour, action and emotion was balanced so well. The Russos have proved that they can do this, but for them to achieve it on such a grand scale was incredible.
I only walked out of the theatre 2 hours ago and I'm honestly revving to see it again.
I can't wait a year for us to see the conclusion dammit.
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9.5/10.
So much happens in the film, its at moments hilarious as well.
Also seeing it with a midnight release filled with fans added to the experience.
High lights for me were:
- Thor>
- Rocket and Bucky their team up moment
- Cap his entrance
- Dr Strange was amazing
the post credit is really exciting,
Also that ending Is gonna make the year between A4 feel so long.
So much happens in the film, its at moments hilarious as well.
Also seeing it with a midnight release filled with fans added to the experience.
High lights for me were:
- Thor>
- Rocket and Bucky their team up moment
- Cap his entrance
- Dr Strange was amazing
the post credit is really exciting,
Also that ending Is gonna make the year between A4 feel so long.
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Ditto to everything here. It's a 10 right now. I am already making plans to watch it again.
Agree with all the posters above. For me personally as a fan, not looking at it too critically, this was almost flawless, my number 1 comic book movie now. Ahead of Dark Knight, Incredibles, Civil War, Avengers 1, GOTG, etc
Alright, so I just got back, my thoughts as followed.
I'm not even sure where to begin with this because it's still stuck in my mind over an hour later. And that's something that's never happened to me with a Marvel movie. This movie never lets up from the first minute, and yet there's a surprising amount of depth to it, a lot more than an other Avengers films, and honestly more than most of the MCU solo films.
First off, the pacing of this movie is on point. To be able to craft a story like this with so many characters and have it run as buttery smooth as it is is nothing short of a miracle. This film will be looked at in film classes in the future in how you manage a story with this many characters in it.
It would be impossible to write about every character, so all I can really do is say no-one feels like they've been done an injustice to. Everyone has their moment and no-one feels like they are trying to outshine the other actors, this is as big a team effort as you're ever likely to see from everyone involved. Most ensembles films have a few of the characters be the lead but everyone is balanced perfectly. Thanos is not so much the lead as he is the glue that holds it all together. Most surprisingly, he makes his case to the audience as to why he's doing what he's doing, not as a quest for power, but as a quest for balance. He's the type of villain that has been sorely missed from the MCU.
There are a few short cuts made here and there with some characters seemingly coming out of nowhere to move the story forward, a few WTF moments from some characters and a few surprisingly dodgy looking CG effect but overall nothing noticeable to derail the ride. The action is pretty intense and given how the groups are split some of the sequences are very inventive, although some of the sequences are a bit too shaky cam for my liking.
As it stands this the first and only Marvel movie where I genuinely had no idea where they were taking the story. The best compliment I can say is that this doesn't feel like a Marvel movie, at least not a regular one. Part of that may be seeing all these characters we've been watching for 10 years converge together, part of that is down to the villain being a genuine threat, part of that is the technical precision needed to make this work, all of those pieces make this something really unique. Does that make it their best film? I don't know yet. All I can say is that this is the first time I walked out wanting to immediately watch a Marvel movie again.
A very, very strong 8/10
I'm not even sure where to begin with this because it's still stuck in my mind over an hour later. And that's something that's never happened to me with a Marvel movie. This movie never lets up from the first minute, and yet there's a surprising amount of depth to it, a lot more than an other Avengers films, and honestly more than most of the MCU solo films.
First off, the pacing of this movie is on point. To be able to craft a story like this with so many characters and have it run as buttery smooth as it is is nothing short of a miracle. This film will be looked at in film classes in the future in how you manage a story with this many characters in it.
It would be impossible to write about every character, so all I can really do is say no-one feels like they've been done an injustice to. Everyone has their moment and no-one feels like they are trying to outshine the other actors, this is as big a team effort as you're ever likely to see from everyone involved. Most ensembles films have a few of the characters be the lead but everyone is balanced perfectly. Thanos is not so much the lead as he is the glue that holds it all together. Most surprisingly, he makes his case to the audience as to why he's doing what he's doing, not as a quest for power, but as a quest for balance. He's the type of villain that has been sorely missed from the MCU.
There are a few short cuts made here and there with some characters seemingly coming out of nowhere to move the story forward, a few WTF moments from some characters and a few surprisingly dodgy looking CG effect but overall nothing noticeable to derail the ride. The action is pretty intense and given how the groups are split some of the sequences are very inventive, although some of the sequences are a bit too shaky cam for my liking.
As it stands this the first and only Marvel movie where I genuinely had no idea where they were taking the story. The best compliment I can say is that this doesn't feel like a Marvel movie, at least not a regular one. Part of that may be seeing all these characters we've been watching for 10 years converge together, part of that is down to the villain being a genuine threat, part of that is the technical precision needed to make this work, all of those pieces make this something really unique. Does that make it their best film? I don't know yet. All I can say is that this is the first time I walked out wanting to immediately watch a Marvel movie again.
A very, very strong 8/10
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No offence dude but he doesn't have the mind stone at that point - he gets the mind stone last of all, at the end of the film, on Earth (while Tony is still stranded on Titan).
But really, a guy with Thanos' resources wouldn't struggle to find that information out
Maybe the next film is Avengers: Endgame
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Thanos would have probably asked who specifically destroyed his Chitauri carrier base back in 2012. That and Stark is probably the most famous human alive aside from Cap.
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MCU Cap is superhumanly strong and tough.
In both Winter Solider and Civil war he survives falls and impacts, unharmed that would cripple or kill a human (even a peak level one). He holds down a helicopter, without having his shoulder dislocated.
In the comics, I totally agree. As comic Cap is only peak human, he would be a red white and blue smear when Thanos hit him.
However, the punch from Thanos dropped Cap, I don't think he was conscious after that.
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Brolin, Olsen and Hemsworth IMO
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