Here we are at last, Avengers Infinity War. From where we began 10 years ago (holy shit) to now; we have the culmination of a decade of movie making right here, right now. Now if you were paying attention at all during these movies after the first Captain America that a major plot point is the Infinity Stones and Thanos the mad Titan. While this movie borrows ideas from the Infinity Gauntlet Storyline it actually borrows its name from its sequel Infinity War. So for those who are unaware of the original Infinity Gauntlet story, here ya go.
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The most notable changes for the movie is that while Thanos is still collecting the stones, he isn't trying to get Death-Senpai to notice him and Adam Warlock hasn't been introduced officially in the MCU yet. As we left off with the remaining Asguardians we're pretty sure that they're the first on Thanos' body count due to Loki's little souvenir from Asgard. So on top of the Power Stone that he recovered from the Nova Corp he now has the Space stone that was stored in the Tesseract. Now all that's left is the unknown Soul Stone, the Time Stone that's in the Eye of Agamotto with Dr Strange, the Reality Stone from the Collector and the Mind Stone that's in Vision's head.
This is one of those movies where I won't be spoiling a damn thing about it. (At least until the end of the year for recap or another such article.) The star of this movie is undoubtably Josh Brolin as Thanos. All those years of build up, his appearances and plans within the previous Marvel movies all come to a climax with him and his goons finally taking charge and what was the result?
Yep Thanos was totally worth the wait. He commands your attention, his motivations for getting the stones is truly monstrous, terrible and perhaps the most scary of all, understandable. He's not just a genocidal maniac for the sake of being pure evil, no no, he thinks that what he's doing is honestly the right thing to do and that only he and he alone should be the one to do this crusade. Perhaps the best part that exemplifies this is how he gets the Soul Stone. Again, I won't say anything more about this scene except that I knew they would come back in some way when they interacted with the thing just not in the way I or perhaps Marvel originally intended.
Also how the hell did they survive and how do they know this stuff? Aside from the big purple star the rest of the movie is as expected; a grand slam. From minute one the action is intense, the drama has you glued to your seat seeing some of our favorite heroes going through such hardship and seeing such devastation unlikes the which no-one has ever born witness to in the MCU so far. We see old comrades meeting up after the events of Civil War and the signing of the Sokovia Accords, old characters encountering new characters like Dr Strange, Tony Stark and Peter Quill's egos colliding against each other to hilarious results, Thor encountering the Guardians of the Galaxy and of course the big trailer fight in Wakanda was epic as hell. Even the individual fights against Thanos' generals were awesome in their own ways
Though there is a few problems with the movie. It really wants us to care about two particular characters that the audience really don't seem to give a crap about. While I was concerned about one of the them for the sake of the overall plot the characters themselves weren't exactly on my favorites list. It was pretty much like when Agent Coulson died in Avengers 1, I honestly didn't care. Also, the ending while chilling and devastating to see kind of loses its drama when you remember all of the Phase 4 movies coming out in the next few years.
Speaking of the post credits scene if this dude has this person on speed dial this whole damn time why didn't they call this guy sooner? In universe I mean you'll see after the credits. Overall, yes this movie was totally worth the wait, a grand slam of a tenth anniversary and easily in my top 10 MCU movies, though I'll give my thoughts on the overall MCU movies when Phase 3 is over with Infinity War Part 2. Now make no mistake this is unbeatably a part 1 so ironically the March to Infinity will keep going on, at least until next year. But for now while the first part of the War is over we'll check in when we see two little guys that managed to avoid getting squashed by Thanos' big, blinged out Power Glove.
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