Avengers: Endgame

podcast review

I'm not naïve enough to suppose that anything I can say here is likely to change anyone's plans about going or not going, so I'll simply say that I enjoyed this silly but thrilling superhero free-for-all.

You would think they would go back to a time when Thanos was young and vulnerable and off him. They opt for a more intricate approach, which bored me.

Avengers: Infinity War at least had the good taste to abstain from Jeremy Renner. No such luck in Endgame.

As expected, the film is carried by the original six Avengers, but it does a remarkable job of bringing virtually every memorable character from all 22 movies back onto the screen. It is a staggering reminder of past and present pleasures.

Endgame definitively closes a few chapters in the Avengers saga in highly satisfying fashion. It is a tremendously entertaining intergalactic trip.

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.

Though it takes far too long to get going (the early scenes are needlessly repetitive and this would have been sharper as a 140 minute movie or somesuch), once it's up and running it's full of thrills.

While the supporting cast members often feel like benched players, the remaining Avengers' arcs do, for the most part, pay off the stories the set up by the film's first hour.

There will never be a Marvel film with an epic feel like this one. [Full Review in Spanish]