Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

7/10

Starring

Robert Downey Jr.

Chris Hemsworth

Mark Ruffalo

Chris Evans

Scarlett Johansson

Benedict Cumberbatch

Don Cheadle

Tom Holland

Chadwick Boseman

 

 

Directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo

There have been many mentions of the Infinity Stones and their powers. If you have seen Avengers: Age of Ultron, you will have come across Vision (a merge of J.A.R.V.I.S., Ultron, and the Mind Stone). Then, if you have seen Doctor Strange (2016), you definitely will have come across the power of the Time Stone. Then there is a Titan named Thanos who wants to harness the power of all the Infinity Stones and use it to save the universe. The problem with his method of trying to save the universe is his plan to use the power of the stones to wipe out, at random, half of the universe’s occupants. You know, if you look at it from another angle, Thanos is not much of a bad guy—just that his solution to the problem of limited resources is random genocide.

The stones were the first things to exist before the universe, and they have the power to make the same universe extinct. Avengers: Infinity War is the first of a two-part Avengers story to sum up the story of the Infinity Stones.

It continues the tale of our heroes from 2012’s The Avengers and 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and it is the nineteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The movie has cool graphics with a very engaging storyline. Put together, this is one amazing movie to see. Now, the movie sets the path to the next Avengers movie but also introduces a new character, Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, whose origin tale we get to see in Captain Marvel. Although we do not get to see her in this movie, the end scene shows a message being sent to her from Nick Fury.

Now the movie plot has been summarized above, with Thanos hunting the universe looking for the stones. He came to Asgard, which is now a flying ship, and, with his men, killed almost all the Asgardians to collect one of the stones. Then he sent his men to Earth to retrieve the Mind and Time Stones, while he went after the Soul Stone.

Thor and Hulk were able to escape the Thanos raid. They regrouped with as many heroes as they could find to take down Thanos and his men.

Steve Rogers/Captain America learned of this threat and was able to bring his team together with the people of Wakanda to stop the rage of the Titan. While all of this was going on, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange were also going up against Thanos to try and stop him.

But you have to see all the movie has to offer to understand what led to the second part.

The movie was both a critical and commercial success for Disney in a huge way. Because audiences were aware of the presence of Captain Marvel, they flocked to the theaters to see what she would bring to the last movie of this two-part saga, Avengers: Endgame (2019).