Avengers: Endgame

Eleven years of Universe building, and this is the crescendo. It really pays off, I've never seen anything quite like it.

It is this part of the story, the human side, to narrow it down to our marginal planet, that holds the movie together for its three-hour run time.

This is a feat of engineering... I felt a sense of catharsis finishing it.

It would be nearly unfathomable to have spent more than 20 preceding films with these characters and not feel anything at the end of the sometimes tedious, mostly satisfying Avengers: Endgame.

What you will be getting when you walk into an inevitably overstuffed movie theater is something singular that reflects our age in a way that none of the MCU films that preceded it have-indeed, very few Hollywood spectacles ever have.

The 3-hour culmination of 22 chapters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is worth going back in time and watching again.

Who could have anticipated that Marvel Studios and Disney would release a three-hour extravaganza whose exquisite character-focused scenes outshine the FX-driven action?

Avengers: Endgame broke me, put me back together, and decided to cut me again in one of the most impactful cinematic experiences of all time.

For me, it didn't fulfill the promise of Infinity War, but it did fulfill the promise of the previous twenty movies.

I'm just grateful to have the privilege to watch this along with the rest of the world. It's not perfect, but it has been one hell of a ride.