Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

7/10

Starring

Robert Downey Jr.

Chris Evans

Mark Ruffalo

Chris Hemsworth

Scarlett Johansson

Directed by Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo

It has been over a decade since the release of the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and we have been taken on a ride through twenty-one films leading to this twenty-second. The Infinity Saga has come to an end, and it was a grand journey.

Marvel decided to wrap this up in such grand style. The movie is three hours long, and you will not want to miss a minute of it. The jokes are packed, the drama is top class, and the action is the best I have seen in the MCU. The role of Captain Marvel in the film cannot be underplayed as she had a great effect.

This movie is just marvelous. Every idea or hope you may have had about how this movie was going to turn out—get ready to have them smashed. Avengers: Endgame does not play to the tune of any fan theory but charts its own course, and does it magnificently.

Our heroes were up against what seemed like an impossible task: to find Thanos and undo what he did in Avengers: Infinity War (2018). It seemed like a simple plot—if Thanos, with a snap of his fingers, could make half the universe’s population disappear, then another snap with the stones could bring them back.

Here is the challenge: Thanos was found, but he was powerless to face the remaining Avengers, as the snap with the stones took a whole lot out of him. He had further drained himself by destroying the stones. With that plan hitting a dead end, the team decided to keep the universe in order, as the disappearance of half its occupants was causing a lot of chaos.

Remember, many things were happening around the world when Thanos snapped his fingers. We get to see Scott Lang (Ant-Man) return from the quantum realm, and he is confused. It has been five years since Thanos snapped his fingers, and Scott, upon his return, could tell that something was wrong. He goes to the Avengers compound and is briefed on what has happened since he’s been gone. He tells them that time in the quantum realm is not the same as in the real world. He says the five years in the real world felt like five hours to him. He then suggests that they can use this knowledge to see if they can make a time machine.

Here is where this film changes everything we know about movies when it comes to time travel. We get schooled on why every movie we know, like Back to the Future, Terminator, and more, has lied to us. Because if you travel to the past, that past becomes your future, and your former present becomes the past, which can’t now be changed by your new future.

Amazing stuff, this movie. It is a critical and commercial success, breaking box office records everywhere. It is set to make over $2 billion, and we are left to guess where it will end.

The movie has no end scenes, and we are left to wonder what the next phase will be. With the exit of some characters, what’s next?