Avengers Infinity War The Review: A Phenomenal Event in Cinema

After a long wait, It's here...

I know it's a bit late for the review. The movie released last Friday and before I put out this review, I wanted to make sure I got everything right. So I watched the movie second time today and now finally I'm putting forward this review. Avengers: infinity War, the most ambitious crossover event in the history of cinema has finally come out. The culmination of 10 years of marvel movies has a lot to live up to. All the hype and praise surrounding this movie is phenomenal. So did it live up to the hype and all the story building starting from Iron man till this point? Well, it did more than that.

Synopsis:

Avengers have to assemble once again to face against the mad  titan Thanos and prevent him from getting all six infinity stones, the singularities with powers unparalleled. What will it take the avengers to defeat this villain? Will they succeed? That's the crux of this movie.

Movie of this Decade:

I have been expecting this movie for almost 5-6 years now. Ever since it was announced, the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe got a lot of attention from the fans. The story and character building in these movies really paid off in Infinity War. You can watch Infinity War without seeing other marvel movies [ If you like a LOT of action]. But you can truly experience this event, this phenomenon, only if you have seen other 18 marvel movies [which I totally recommend to watch].

This movie will hold a special place in cinematic history. It's already breaking all the records on box office, but that's for the producers to worry about. What we got here is the impossible, the event that fans hitherto undreamt of.

I'll try my best to be unbiased here and try very hard to nitpick the things that I thought was off in the movie and make this review a balanced one.

Destiny has arrived:

Speaking of balance, kudos to the screenplay writers Christopher Markus and Stephen Mcfeely for this brilliant masterpiece of a screenplay. The movie starts off right away and tone is set in a way that we have never seen in any previous marvel movie before. Immediately, you sense the tension, the immense terrifying feeling with the arrival of Thanos. Then the movie shifts back and forth between different tones and you won't even notice it that much. That's what makes this a great movie. You get a intense scene with deep dialogues and suddenly some character cracks a joke and the action starts and then the emotional scene comes. This happens all at once and in a rapid pace. They won't even give you time to breath. The movie is exceptionally balanced and the tone switches continuously throughout the movie. One scene you will be moved and in the very next scene you will be in awe of the action scenes and in the next you will be laughing at a joke. This roller coaster of emotions is what makes this more than a movie.

The Heroes of Marvel:

There is no great movie without the great responsibility of the director. Hats off to Anthony and Joe Russo for handling all the characters in this movie so effortlessly. You got characters from Iron man, Thor, Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy movies and all of them are directed by different directors. Surprisingly, all of them fitted perfectly and none of them felt out of place and character. Balancing all these characters and giving them importance and considerable amount of screen time [ remember this movie has over 30-40 main characters] is an incredibly hard job. But the Russo brothers did it. Especially some of them are being introduced to the avengers for the first time and their interactions on first time meeting are just a treat to watch. The already established characters in the team are played exactly like where they left off in their previous movies.

Thanos [played by Josh Brolin] is just phenomenal. Marvel finally fixed the problem with their villains. He is fierce, strong, smart, terrifying and probably the best villain of all time. If you have watched the movie, you'll know what I mean. He gets the most screen time in this film. They promised a great villain and they delivered.

Blockbuster action:

The major part which defines this movie would be the action sequences. From here on, if someone says “some xxx movie has cool and spectacular action sequences”, I would ask “but does it have Infinity war level action sequences”. This movie is the manifestation of action movies. The fight scenes are so brilliantly choreographed and every hero is utilized in such a great way. Some of the action scenes blew my mind in a way I had to watch it one more time to fully understand what's going on.

Negatives:

I said I'll be unbiased so I have to say some negatives. Obviously, no movie is perfect. But the only negative point that I can give this movie is that it's not long enough [ it runs 2hours and 29minutes].

Given the huge roster of characters, I expected it to be atleast 3 hours long. Because of that short run-time some of the characters didn't get that much of a screen than they deserved. Another con is that this film is not exactly the culmination of marvel but a part of the real culmination that's gonna happen by this time next year.

Conclusion:

Phase 3 of marvel has been a hell of a ride. We got Captain America; Civil War, most interesting marvel movie in my opinion. Then we got Doctor Strange, our first introduction to the mystic world of marvel. Then we got Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2, an excellent follow-up to the surprisingly great first one and then we got Spiderman: Homecoming, with the perfect casting choice for Spider man, Thor:Ragnarok, a surprisingly funny and weird action movie and then finally the cultural phenomenon Black Panther. All these movies and the previous marvel movies are tied into this movie in a brilliant way and gave us the most emotional, Jaw-dropping classic with the boldest ending I have ever seen in a movie.