A surprising psych accurate delivery of a post war environment with deeply humane feelings of - Loss, PTS, behavioral sins & Sacrifice, with a hearty serving of comedic relief on memorable characters albeit with some overdone and quite disorienting with our loved heros ; this in the opening theme dosed with realism was promising. Although entertaining, unfortunately it takes a turn as the story unfolds and leaves a bit of a void on believability and represents more of a desperately designed stand and deliver patchwork bridging of past films to pitch a network of links in sticking a landing that Psychosomatically hits the sweet desired targets of fandoms, but risks Dislocating the rails for an emotional crescendo in absolute anticipation of a solid long lasting & memorable plot ending in similar weight or greater having followed the harrowing & unexpected conclusion of Avengers Infinity War which I found to be a brilliant cliffhanger...keeping me in suspense for 1 year for what's next ...
The final clash was epic only in the number of characters that were involved, however fell short on equating an equivalent match up with full development of the perpetrators (bad guys make movies great - y'all know that right), leaving the clash moments often feeling shallow and too brief on individual skill set moves that would anchor (or even deliver an epic surprise) memorable match up encounters of the opposing sides. A missed opportunity to stamp in some legendary moments of cinematic clash to last decades, with some signatures of this, although too few (only spiderman and black panther, Ironman, Cap and Thor had some great choreographed fight scenes worth remembering) and not covering more of the fringe characters which left us short changed....not to mention what happens to the stones...too simple and convenient.
As it ended, a lot of characters were under developed, clash seemed artificially one sided (not many bad guys won nor good guys hurt, which is unbelievable in any battle this complex, not withstanding a mother of all weapon raining down from the Thanos ship on everyone) and it left a huge void of ownership in believability or acceptance for a realistic ending for the switched on emancipated minds, and fell short as being an organic story development for any expansionary wonderment or excitement for the future of the MCU characters. Left artificially static & lost like most of the characters at the funeral scene.
For me it's more of a miss in encapsulating an overbearingly fan tilted "feel-good" desert serving, rather than a well crafted conveyance that is surgical, masterful and sweet spot hitting akin to black widow's mark (mayhap could have even been an astonishing expose). Thus it lacks the credibility ingredient needed as a prerequisite to invest whole heartedly into a story arc that weaves a more natural flavor & incorporates a more probable ending; that would certainly earn the respect and ticks the satisfaction factor from the matured adults category being die hard followers of the marvel characters who are also great fans of good story telling & intelligent endings.
Please don't get me wrong, kudos to the big R Brothers for soldiering on in fatigue to end the story. Perhaps they did such a good job in IW that staged an expectation that was way too high from us fans who have come to expect nothing but the Epic Best ending which unfortunately this was not....leaving lots of questions unanswered pertaining to the characters....
We will miss u Iron man(RDJ)