The Russo brothers returned to the big screen after what feels like the longest year of waiting in any fandom. Avengers Endgame being the culmination of 22 MCU releases in the Infinity Saga, it certainly felt like an audience worthy send off for our favourite heroes. 

 

Last year’s Avengers: Infinity War was evidence of pure genius in directing and story writing, leaving a mark in cinematic history. Thanos journeying across the universe hunting down the infinity stones, and the galaxy’s strongest heroes teaming together as a final defense is a piece of action cinema as you’ll never see again. 

 

The fourth instalment in the Avengers franchise deals with the hard, messy business of emotional fallout and character development, so that the when we get to see action, it is less precise but far more impactful and emotional to watch.

 

Endgame isn’t a 3 hour movie just about ‘getting the gang back together’. Instead, Anthony and Joe Russo have effortlessly taken the time, alongside other legendary directors such as Taika Watiti, James Gunn and Jon Favreau, as well as the support of Kevin Feige, to form a plan and do some ‘proper avenging’. 

 

All 21 previous MCU movies have led to this moment, and it didn’t disappoint in the slightest. Although it had its flaws (Bro Thor being my biggest grudge), it was a satisfying send off for our favourite heroes. 

 

The opening scene revisits the heartbreaking moment of the snap, from the POV of Hawkeye. One moment he’s enjoying his ‘retirement’ with his wife and 3 children, then one moment he isn’t. It’s within the 5 minutes of Endgame starting that the feeling of ‘it’s finally happening’ begins to sink in. Kudos to the few people that predicted the opening scene months before the first trailer. You know who you are.

The odds for Infinity War may not have been that great, but Endgame yields the hope of a possible happy ending, even if it means saying goodbye to our childhood heroes forever. 

 

Paul Rudd as Ant-Man is certainly a fan favourite, and while we have already been blessed with 2 fantastic movies, he should be the leader of the next Avengers movie. There, I said it.

 

After two and a half hours of harc-core fan service,  Avengers Endgame wraps ‘time heisting, logic bending storytelling’ with a series of hard hitting events. With Infinity War, the deaths weren’t proper deaths. Yes, we gathered vision was a ‘goner’, but WandaVision corrected that. The rest of the deaths felt like a gimmick. The audience knew it wasn’t the end. However, before they even happened, we knew whatever was going to happen, you weren’t going to be able to walk away from it.

 

Time and time again, the movie proves the point that family matters. And no, this isn’t a reference to Fast 9. Hawkeye, Ant-Man and Thor have all experienced biological losses, or relationships like Steve and Bucky being forged in duty.

 

The final take away from Endgame, is that being a hero doesn’t always guarantee you walk away victorious. Sometimes,  being a hero means doing the things no one else can. 

 

Is Avengers Endgame a perfect movie? No, it most certainly isn’t. Is it a satisfying send off? Absolutely. The movie does have flaws, but fans are able to see the positives.