Spoilers Ahead. Do not read if you have not watched the Avengers:Infinity War.
One minor gripe
By - Jennifer Bisset, Sydney, Australia
This wasn't my favorite Marvel movie, but the seamless transitions between characters and their worlds, from Star-Lord's cool rock entrance to Spider-Man's yellow bus, and the spot-on humor for every character, is an insane achievement. There seemed to be real thought behind how to use minor characters, like when the empathic powers of "footsoldier" Mantis could have been pivotal and Scarlet Witch had powerful magical attacks but was weak in hand-to-hand combat.
It was admirable how hard the filmmakers tried with Thanos -- they even made the Infinity War hashtag #ThanosDemandsYourSilence -- but I don't think he matches Hela from the recent Thor: Ragnarok, who felt genuinely threatening and I understood her past.
Going back to Gamora's recruitment felt tacked on as a way to give Thanos more character and a weakness to stop him from being totally invincible... Maybe instead they could have gone back and shown who he was as a kid. But his Middle-earth-looking henchmen were refreshing in that they could pull off tricks, like the goblin-alien (Corvus Glaive) pretending to be dead, then showing up and attacking Vision.
Infinity War met my expectations as a well-oiled Marvel movie, but I still had one minor gripe. While Gamora had a surprisingly large amount to do, Black Widow barely has a line. My standout scene was when Black Widow, Scarlet Witch and Okoye fight Proxima Midnight, but it felt like a deliberate all-girl battle. Hopefully Marvel figures out how to make the "women problem" go away in part two (hint to watch till after the credits).
I like this, but...
---By Kartik Bajaj
The movie was better than most of the Marvel films, if not the best. The characters of Iron Man, Thor, Doctor Strange, Gamora, Nebula, the whole GoTG Gang, Hulk were very well portrayed. What lacked was a major role of Captain, Falcon, Black Widow and mainly Black Panther.
This is because of the screen time restriction, is what I think. It’s not easy to potray all the major events happening across universe in 2 and a half hour so maybe it’s justified.
The movie was loaded with light references of humor which were perfectly timed and were essentially necessary to cut the tension of the ending.
What I particularly liked is how each of the character was introduced within his/her own auro like Thor being introduced in a bit of dark/serious side, GoTG in the same old retro style, IronMan as a douchebag, Parker as a school-going kid.
The death of Loki and Gamora were justified to their best with Loki dying because of yet another mischief and Gamora being kind-of sacrificed by Thanos to gain access to the Soul Stone.
What goes on in between is just a mayhem of epic fight scenes, some light humour, some pretty strong emotional stuff, REDSKULL CAMEO and innumerable moments.
TLDR
Overall Verdict :- 8/10
Plus Points :-
Storyline
Portrayal of Iron Man, Spidey, Dr. Strange, Rocket, Quill, Gamora
Emotional trauma when Gamora and Spidey die.
Minus Points :-
An odd cliffhanger
Screen time division of major characters.
Characters like Bucky, Rhodes and Falcon being sided out.
Obviously a must watch and don’t forget to stay till end.
I was absolutely wrong
By -- Patricia Puentes San Francisco
I was expecting not to like Avengers: Infinity War. Too many characters, too many stories to tie in, I thought. Plus, I didn't particularly enjoy Captain America: Civil War. I thought Infinity War was going to be one big pile of explosions, with lots of characters and not much else.
I was wrong. It surprised me how much plot the movie has and how well intertwined the different stories are. The Russo brothers have not only preserved some of the humor perfected in Thor: Ragnarok, they managed to make a movie in which I still don't know who the main character is. But that didn't pose a problem.
Would I have liked to see a little bit more of Chris Evans' new beard? Or Scarlett Johansson's new blond hairdo? Yes.
But the rest of the cast is really well served by Infinity War, including a hilarious ego showdown between the other two Chrises: Hemsworth and Pratt.
That being said, my problem with this movie is the same I've had with most of the Avengers titles. I would much rather enjoy a few episodes of Capi, Natasha and Sam roughing it up and being fugitives from justice than another big explosion-filled movie where the goal is to fight for the survival of the universe.
Talk about zero stakes
-- Mark Serrels, Sydney, Australia
Oh boy, where do I start?
I guess I'll begin by saying I did not enjoy this movie. For the first time in an Avengers movie I felt completely hamstrung by the fact that I've only watched maybe 50 percent of all Marvel movies. At various points I had zero understanding of what was going on and no comprehension of the stakes outside of typical "THE UNIVERSE AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE DOOMED" superhero schtick.
Up until now, Marvel movies have done a good job of making themselves accessible to people (like me) who exist outside of that comic book bubble. Avengers: Infinity War is the first that felt very much not for me.
Some mediocre performances really stood out. Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany, for example, had zero chemistry. Olsen literally made her lower lip quiver to show sadness at one point, which was pretty distracting. Considering this pair's arc was the emotional heart of Infinity War they had to nail it -- and they didn't.
Josh Brolin brings purple tyrant Thanos to life.
Marvel
Some positives: Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland did have chemistry, as did Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pratt. Every time Infinity Wars stopped trying to take itself seriously it succeeded massively.
The exception to that rule was Thanos, who ruled. Josh Brolin was extremely good, and Thanos' arc felt significant, but it's hard to escape the sense that Infinity War just bit off way more than it could chew. Way more than any movie franchise could chew, really.
And the ending. Dear God, the ending.
Talk about zero stakes. The CGI fritter-murder of half the main cast just… flat-out sucked the stakes out of Infinity War, removing all the weight from the movie. Kill off a character, sure. But make me feel that it's real. There's no way Marvel and Disney are killing off Spider-Man, Star-Lord and Black Panther in one single scene -- and we know this. So why is the audience being asked to pretend that these "deaths" matter? We know they don't.
Dr. Strange, what exactly have you done?
It was long, to be sure. After the big battle on Titan, I looked at the time -- still another hour to go? It already felt epic. It had the holes in logic of any superhero movie -- once Thanos had the reality stone, which he used effectively in his confrontation with Quill, why didn't he use it the same way in subsequent donnybrooks? Oh, yeah, because that's what we paid for: heavyweight bout after heavyweight battle royale.
Most surprisingly, it's genuinely touching in spots, especially in Stark's concern for Peter Parker -- first when he realizes Parker has stowed away on the spaceship headed toward a rendezvous with Thanos, and later when he holds the fading Parker, a superhero dying young. The finale was a heavy heaping of melancholy. I'm looking forward to the follow-up (Avengers: Infinity Plus One, maybe?) to see if maybe those stones hold powers we don't yet understand, powers to turn the plot in startling directions and restore at least some of what we've lost.
It had to be done, Dr. Strange? Dr. Strange, what exactly have you done?
Keen sense of humor
-- Morgan Little, San Francisco
Comic book fans, more than the general moviegoing audience, are familiar with the whole notion of an "event," just like they were more familiar with the preceding superhero team-up. As cape comics went on, it wasn't enough for single heroes to fight single villains, or hero teams to fight leagues of evil. All of the heroes and all of the villains had to be taken out of their toy boxes and thrown together. This leaves Infinity War, for better and for worse, as the first movie version of one of these events.
At its worst, Infinity War is like overwrought comics events such as Fear Itself or Flashpoint: rudderless and veering between fan service, power-ups and twists that go nowhere. But what elevates Infinity War above the worst of the genre's habits is its keen sense of humor and acceptance of its own ridiculousness. The levity that buoys the movie after its brutal beginning brings some legitimately funny moments. And this humor makes the coming onslaught of action and failure all the more impactful, much more so than if Infinity War wallowed in the tragedy it ends with.
That escalation comes along a degree of spectacle that winks at its audience. Wherever the Marvel films go from here, they can't impress by throwing moons. They can't make fans giddy just by smooshing teams together or bringing down the wrath of The One Ultimate Evil That Will Ultimately Destroy Everything. So during this final opportunity, the Russo Bros let loose with some truly ridiculous moments that are awesome now, but could lose their luster when compared with Part 2.
Comic fans also know the twists at the end of Infinity War can be undone as quickly as they occur, and will be undone in part due to a series of corporate and contractual interests. It's much harder to take character deaths seriously when their sequels are already announced, and when we know we're only at the end of half of the story. But who cares ... this is a big, dumb superhero movie where a god, a talking tree and a raccoon team up with a space dwarf to use a dead star to make a hammer, joking through the whole enterprise. Celebrate it for what it is.
This is taken from http://www.ggcos.com/global-best-and-worst-review-about-avengersinfinity-war/
