Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Chris
Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch,
Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen,
Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista,
Zoe Saldana, Josh Brolin, Chris Pratt
Rating: 9 out of 10, I loved the movie
which is a glorious send up of geekdom in general. It’s absolutely relentless
as the Marvel characters I and fellow geeks have invested so heavily in over
the past eighteen Marvel movies are brought together for dizzying confrontation
with Thanos. Thanos plays the ultimate environmentalist as he plans of solving
the universe’s population problems by eliminating half of said population. This
doesn’t sit well with our heroes but Thanos is not your garden variety tree
hugger. The death toll is constant and at times troubling as the big stars with
contracts running out fall by the wayside in increasing numbers. I do find it
strange that despite both sides having galaxy spanning technology the final
confrontation always seems to come down to a fist fight and spears but with
Marvel there’s an undeniable need to suspend disbelief. It was magnificent and
too much fun. Marvel also smartly put out this was the first of a two movie arc
so we don’t have to worry too much about all the dead heroes. In the immortal
words of Miracle Max, I’m sure most of them are only “mostly dead”. Go see it,
total popcorn escapism at its very best.
MVP: Saldana as Gamora, making green
look good
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