Yesterday I went to see the latest instalment of the MCU. This has been set up for around 6 years and now it has finally arrived to the big screen and has been a result of almost every Marvel film since the first Avengers back in 2012. This movie is probably the most hyped and biggest movie Marvel has ever produced and they did not disappoint in both the hype and the quality.
The story of the movie is that Thanos a powerful being from the planet Titan is on a quest to search for all six Infinity Stones and once he finds all he can wipe out half of the universe. He sends his minions known as the Black Order to search for the stones on earth and The Avengers and The Guardians of the Galaxy must join forces to face Thanos and stop him from obtaining all the Infinity Stones and changing the universe.
The cast is the biggest Marvel has ever had in the movie so I will split them into the teams and other minor characters that are in the movie. So from the Avengers, we have Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Steve Rodgers/ Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/ The Hulk, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/ Black Widow, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/ Scarlett Witch, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/ Hawkeye, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/ The winter soldier, Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/ Ant-Man, Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stephen Strange, Tom Holland as Peter Parker/ Spider-Man and Chadwick Boseman as King T'Challa/ Black Panther Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/ War Machine and Paul Bettany as Vision.
From the Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Pratt as Peter Quill/ Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon, Vin Diesel as Teenage Groot, Pom Klementieff as Mantis and Karen Gillian as Nebula. From The Black Order, Tom Vaughan Lawlor as Ebony Maw, Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight, Micheal James Shaw as Corvus Glave and Terry Notary as Cull Obsidian/ Black Dwarf. Other characters include Gywenth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Idris Elba as Heimdall, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Peter Dinklage as Eitri, Benedict Wong as Wong, Benicio Del Toro as The Collector, William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross, Winston Duke as M'Baku, Letitia Wright as Shuri, Florence Kasumba as Ayo, Ross Marquand as the Stonekeeper and of course Josh Brolin as Thanos.
Well, that is a heck load of characters in the film. now time for some things that the film did really well was the chemistry between all the characters such as Thor with the Guardians and Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, Iron Man and Star-Lord work well together also. It also has Villian that may be the best in the MCU in my opinion, We all know that Marvel has had a big Villian problem with some being amazing such as Loki, The Vulture and Erik Kilmonger and other just being plain forgetful such as Malkeith, Ronan the Accuser and Yellow Jacket. Thanos is different from all those, as he has been set up as the big bad for six years, although the fans make fun of him as aside from this movie he hasn't done anything that antagonising we all knew he would make a big impact on the MCU and boy did they do that. Not only did he change the MCU forever we also had a look at the emotional side to him such as his motive to change the universe and his past actions to his daughter Gamora.
However no matter how good a movie is there will always be its downsides. The movie is undoubtedly the longest MCU movie to date having a runtime of 2hrs and 30 mins and sometimes the scenes could drag and make the movie seem longer than it actually is but there was enough in the movie to actually make the movie not seem boring such as the final battle in Wakanda. Another is also the CGI was unfinished in some scenes which seem to be a common mistake in the MCU, although the CGI was good in most scenes you were able to tell what scenes had good CGI and which didn't.
In Conclusion, the Film has its downsides to it but it has enough good things to it that the downsides seem like minor things that are occurring in the film, It has enough jokes in the movie to make it not seem plain boring like the DCEU before Wonder Woman and Justice League. The chemistry of all the characters is amazing and they all have an equal balance of screen time although some do have more than others. But I am excited to see what happens next after Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel as they are based during or before the events of both Infinity War or The MCU as a whole.
But Overall I would give Infinity War a 10/10- For amazing character and amazing emotional moments, some unexpected twists, a worthy villain that has been set up for a while and a climax with a huge impact to future movies and would like to see what happens next.
HAPPY TEN YEARS MARVEL STUDIOS
