The hype and anticipation for this movie is unprecedented. People bought first day or first weekend tickets a month or so in advance, and these were mostly sold out. Some movie houses had showings as early as 6 am on the first day yesterday. I had not seen anything like this before, not even last year with "Avengers: Infinity War," when we were still able to buy tickets for the first night on the day itself.
As expected, the movie theater was full-packed with fans. Even if there was initial apprehension for the running time of 3 hours (no big deal for me really), no one actually stood up to take a bathroom break. From the very first scene, everyone was kept in rapt attention watching the whole film unfold with drama, shock, humor, action and tears, right up to the final fade out. You never feel the 3 hours pass by.
Following the devastating events of "Avengers: Infinity War," our remaining heroes, along with the rest of the 50% of the world, try to cope with the aftermath of Thanos' fateful finger snap with his infinity stone gauntlet. Some fared better than others. Upon a call though, they banded together with other friends, both old and new, to whip up a grand single-shot plan to get their dusted super-colleagues and the rest of humanity back from limbo.
Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have come up with an epic interweave of story lines which enabled nostalgic revisitings of several previous MCU films, with cameo appearances of several major and minor characters. The tag-team direction of the Russo brothers Anthony and Joe executed the immense challenge of the complex script so well that we never lost track of what was going on in whatever timeline the events were happening. The audience was always fully engaged in the adventure and the drama of it all.
Everyone in the main cast of original Avengers -- Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) -- got their chance to shine in various ways, some more dramatic, some more humorous, all with honor, all with heart. Nebula (Karen Gillan), Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), War Machine (Don Cheadle) and Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) were in on the action all the way.
Not a single minute of its 181 minutes was wasted. It had enormous pressure on coming up with a fitting conclusion to a continuing saga of 21 films, and it delivered way more than expected. A screenplay for this sort of narrative involving time is bound to have some holes, but you won't care to nitpick because of the overall dramatic effect. All the actors poured their hearts and guts out for this. The visual effects as well as the other technical aspects were faultless and spectacular. I won't be surprised if this will be nominated for Oscars (Best Picture and Director on top of the tech categories), and probably even win. 10/10.
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