After the defeat of the heroes and the death of half the population, Nick Fury summons Captain Marvel. And it looked like she was the key to salvation. At the time, people didn’t know if they wanted it. As a result, the captain participates in the “Final” for 5 minutes. Not to say that she did nothing, after all, saved Stark and crashed the ship of Thanos, but this is not what they thought after the scene with the pager. She just dropped out of the movie because "There's a mess on a thousand planets too." What? The others don't fight Thanos.
- The film failed to show the consequences of the death of half the population. Well, heroes are sad... How about we show the huge half-empty cities, the deserted streets, the dumps of abandoned cars? The collapse in rent prices, the economic impact, the news? Where is it? They showed memorial poles, a couple of abandoned cottages and a director in the role of a faggot who grieves for a man. The budget is $356 million, and you were able to talk about desolation this way? The movie turned out to be a chamber. There are almost no large landscapes in it, everything is built on the interaction of characters in cramped spaces and on artificial streets a couple of houses long.
- The film consists of three semantic parts: the characters sit their pants at home and suffer, the characters travel through time and then the final fight. And from that, the whole first part is completely uninteresting. It is clear what the authors wanted – to show the consequences of defeat, to create an atmosphere, drama. But it didn't work. The drama should have a lyrical content, i.e. the characters move from emotional state A to state B, and the viewer follows how this happens. That's not enough here. Well, they showed how Stark didn't want to get in at first, and then he did. But we had no doubt about it, it was obvious. The rest are shown in statics - Banner has somehow figured out himself behind the scenes, the rest are what they were, and remain. Barton's whole family died, but how did he survive? He killed a yakuza on an empty street. It doesn't work.
- Why did Stark get stuck on a ship in the beginning? This is a Sentinel ship that can open and fly 50 portals in succession. If there was little fuel, why didn't the guards refuel on Titan? And why didn't an empty tank diagnose Nebula? Finally, Marvel’s space is densely populated, even with the galactic internet. It's full of people to save them.
- The lucky rat was noted in the comments of all who are not lazy. The ant from the quantum world was not returned by someone clever or magical, it did not find any new key to salvation. All this was just a curiosity - the mouse ran, waved its tail, that's a wonderful salvation! It was only through this rat that the whole chain of events that led to the salvation of the universe became possible. You might say, "Dr. Strange anticipated the rat." But he didn't call her! She was still an accident at the level of winning the lottery. The Avengers' victory is a curiosity.
- Going into the past, the characters note that they have little substance to move. Although later they get out, stealing from the past another party. So maybe we should go back in time for fuel and then travel on assignments?
- I don't understand Barton and Natasha. The fact that the victim was accepted means they loved each other. But wait a minute. Barton was happily married, Natasha was first with a cap, then with Banner - did she love everyone? Someone will say, "Well, I mean love for a friend." Last time, the parent was counted.” But somehow that's unconvincing.
- Strangely enough, they didn't recognize Skull. They don't know each other, but did Cap tell them? The best friends of the hero and his worst enemy did not react to each other.
- Thor... It's very bad. In general, it was always a problematic character, the actor himself admitted that he did not believe in this role. His first two films, which were made almost seriously, did not receive wide audience reception. Everyone agreed that in general not bad, but does not pin and does not find its viewer. So Thor 3 made a clown out of the hero, and the cattle immediately voted for it with a buck. In Infinity War, he was a more or less normal man again, but his line didn’t lead to anything, and by carving the whole line into a bucket, the film would have lost nothing. And here Thor finally reached his bottom. Now it's a fat, boozy, crying scourge... It just hurts to see. And you can't put a moral here that even the gods can break down and fall down because it's all too cartoonish, it can't be taken as a sane story about moral decay, it's just a stupid cartoon series about how the character temporarily fell to the bottom. What did he even do in his story arc? While the raccoon alone was getting the air, Thor was just talking to his mother. The only thing he could do was to warn his mother of imminent death and save her, but he didn’t.
- The stone of reality, aka the ether. In Thor 2 it was emphasized that he was not a stone, he was fluid. And now Thor has said it again. So how is this ghostly substance made of stone??? This was not shown in the WB and was not shown again.
- Soulstone. What's he even doing? This was not shown in the WB and was not shown again.
- Timestone. The elder explains how important it is for the stones to remain in place to maintain the cosmic balance. But for some reason Banner did not say that in a few years they were destroyed at all. Without them, they lived there for 5 years, and something did not fall to the ground.
- Hulk click. It's a visual drain. I was just sure that we would see the return of the population as we saw it disappear. That this time there will be a visual effect, like people appearing on the streets from a sacred glow or whatever, and it will be beautiful. And instead, nothing. At all. They're all just behind the scenes. At this point, it is especially obvious how much chamber film – it was necessary to show the restoration of life on the planet, and showed a few people in cramped rooms.
- Heroes did something incredibly stupid - to take and return 3.5 billion people to Earth in one moment. To a world where their homes have been sold, where there hasn't been so much food grown in years, where billions of jobs have been closed. Bringing babies back to parents who have died, moved in, who just aren't waiting. Return the spouses to those who mourned and remarried. Where will all these people go, what will they do, where and with whom will they live? It's a permanent crisis all over the world. All the planets. I'm not saying I shouldn't have returned, but I was expecting something more literate.
- And the best last thing. Time machine. We all know that time travel movies simply cannot be without shoals. Because there's a causal breakdown. But the authors of such films respected one rule: changing the past, you change the present. If the younger versions of the characters changed fates, if they were injured, if they did other things, then this always reflected in their older versions. And so in Endgame, the characters simply took and spoiled other people’s films, called Back to the Future nonsense and at the same time showed the worst concept of time travel in recent decades. You can just kill the younger versions of the characters and the old ones will stay. Here you can kill Thanos-of-the-past while preserving the damage done by his older version (the click was not canceled as an event). It's really bad. This is a complete author’s indifference to the concept and plot. If these rules allow the past to be polished as you wish, why would you ever bring the stones back? It’s more of a journey to parallel worlds. But then how was Cap able to live life with Peggy Carter, returning to his past in this reality? It's an amorphous concept that the bolt was hammered at and didn't try to make sense of.
- How will Cap return the stones to the same moments they were taken? Giving the Elder a time stone is not a question, putting the staff next to the young, carved Cap is also. How will he return 2 stones to different planets without having a ship? How do you put a stone of space back in a tesseract and put it back in a safe at a base in the '70s that was already alarmed? How's the air going back to Jane Foster in Asgard?
The Marvel Cinematic Universe was a phenomenon anyway. When I was 15 years old, I started thinking, "Why doesn't anyone do a cross between movies and TV shows, taking the budgets of the first and the duration of the second?" And suddenly it came. Is it good that this happened under the auspices of Disney? The fact is that just no one else could not cope, you can find on the Internet a bunch of stories about how the franchise rolled down after two or three parts, the directors went into crisis in droves, and just to release a few good sequels was an impossible task for everyone. Who other than Disney could do that? Is it DC that has become a worldwide mockery of trying to create something like this? Or maybe Michael Bay, who made every next Transformers, is worse than the last. Then the authors of the cinema universe really worked, tried, everywhere there was acting, the tireless use of various concepts, skillful fan service, thoughtful interrelation of films. But those days are over.
It is quite expected that after “Endgame” began the sunset of the superhero theme. We've seen the franchise's 11-year journey, seen the pitiful efforts of competitors to catch up with them, seen Disney's takeover of the Foxes and the return of Prodigal Spidey from Sonya. We watched the characters of different films get together as a team, how the infinity stones are collected and how billions are collected at the box office. It was Hype. And then it went down. There was once such a genre of cinema - western, once very popular, but hype passed, and where is it now? I already predicted in a post in my band that the next few years in film would be marked by filmmakers and actors trying to jump on the departing train, and Marvel, already embracing an ideology of support for feminism, minorities and multiculturalism, would go downhill. They didn't really believe me, but that's what happened. The interest of the people in this large-scale story was satisfied, and soon nothing will remain of it.