WOOHOO!!!!
Okay, first off, I love it! Any criticisms I make aren't so much complaining, because overall I loved this film. It definitely felt like "another chapter" as a lot of people have already stated. Feeling more like a transitional stage into the Phase Three, and in some ways I think it's the same as why I didn't enjoy The Dark Knight Rises as much, because quite simply The Avengers was the big pay-off that we were all waiting for. By now, we've had so many MCU movies, that seeing them all in one movie isn't as exciting. With that said, Infinity War really, really needs to step up BIG TIME in order to compete with anything Marvel have done before.
Hawkeye's "speech" to fire up Wanda was great! The "The city is flying, we're fighting robots, and I have a bow and arrow" was really great. Wanda and Quicksilver were done pretty well, and I was gutted about Quicksilver dying. And Vision was amazing! Like, as soon as he was "born" it's like one of those "holy fucking shit" moments.
Adding in War Machine (YES!), Falcon briefly, and so many other supporting characters, was just amazing to see all these guys interacting in one movie. I pray to God that Infinity War has everyone in in. Everyone. Honestly don't think there has ever, ever been such a star-stacked movie. Seriously the amount of big names in this franchise, and hell in this movie alone, is surely an unheard of feat.
The humour I thought, was spot on, as before. I lot of people criticized the banter between the team. I thought it was great! I loved the repeated knocks on Cap "And by gosh mind your language!"... great stuff.
Loved the fight scene at the end. The stakes certainly seemed higher with the idea that this was "another chapter", you kinda felt like something could possibly happen that'll open the doors for future storylines. As with the first movie, the only thing that kinda irks me is that the bulk of the action was still the Avengers taking on an army, and not one individual. I hope they're saving this for Thanos. Having everyone team up and getting their asses kicked by one ultimate enemy, as opposed to fighting his army while the team go up against him one-on-one.
Overall I loved it though. The two+ hours flew by. I think I enjoyed the first more, but that's simply because, like I said above, the appeal of seeing all of the heroes team up in one movie has been done now, so it's kinda a completely different mindset when watching this film. Fantastic movie though. Well done Marvel.
