The movie opened with death and destruction, signalling the serious tone of this movie, of how this is the end for the heroes. It was a sight to see The Black Order waiting patiently for Thanos's orders, seeing them at his beck and call just like in the comics. The fight between Thanos and Hulk was far too quick, seeing how comic book Hulk is so much stronger than MCU Hulk, was a tad annoying, but still the fight was totally worth it. And just like that, Heimdall and Loki were killed by Thanos. And just like that, you realized the seriousness of this movie and how no one was spared at all. I was saddened and annoyed that Loki got killed quickly 20 minutes into the movie.
The fight scene between Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian versus Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Wong was magically beautiful. Seeing the brute strength of Cull Obsidian against the mechanics of Iron Man's suit and Spider-Man's agility, was entertaining and a delight - I mean, it was the mentor and his mentee in a tag-team match against the strongest member of The Black Order. But one of my favourite scene has to be seeing Ebony Maw's telekinesis powers coming to life unlike any other movies that I had ever seen before. The easiness of his powers was on a different level compared to seeing Jean Grey's powers in the X-Men universe. Cull Obsidian might physically be the strongest member of The Black Order but Ebony Maw is easily the most powerful among children of Thanos.
Spider-Man's suit and Iron-Man's suit, it's on another completely different level! It is exactly like in the comic books, the CGI was able to replicate from the comic books beautifully. I had goosebumps watching their suits in actions.
Then there was the fight between Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive versus Scarlet Witch and Vision. Oh My God! Scarlet Witch has grown leaps and bounds in so many ways and is easily the most powerful member of the Avengers, excluding Dr. Strange. Seeing her wielding her powers, blasting off the villains and flying around in the air was freaking awesome. To see Vision being the vulnerable one, this time round, was quite interesting. He is easily one of the most powerful member around but watching Corvus Glaive fucking him up, makes you realized that The Black Order was not a team to be messed around with.
When Captain America, Black Widow and Falcon joined in the fight, it was really a tad boring. They took the villains by surprised and overpowered them easily, which seems rather like a throwaway for me. But when Captain America came into the scene, I could physically feel myself getting pregnant and having orgasm at the same time. He is so fucking perfect in that uniform, that body, that beard and that messy push-back long hair.
The interaction between Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy was everything I could hope for. It was hilarious and adorable but at the same time, the underlying tone of death is coming is still there without making it too depressing.
The scene when Thor needed to get a new hammer, with Groot and Rocket tagging along with him and Peter Dinklage as dwarf. We do get a bit of back-story as to how Mjolnir and the Infinity Gauntlet were created but other than that, it was as awesome as the rest of the scenes so far. It helps to slow it down and shows how Thor is willing to do anything to avenge Asgard and protect Earth.
Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax and Mantis went to Knowhere to get the Reality Stone first but Thanos was already there and he used it to manipulate them. The scene where Gamora managed to killed her stepfather, Thanos and cried for his death, that was a great scene and plot to it. It made me think that here we have the most dangerous woman in the galaxy who has been telling everyone that she hates her stepfather but when he did died in the fake reality, she wept for him. It just shows that a part of her did really love him even after the hell that he brought down on her.
Then when it was Thanos and Gamora trying to retrieve the Soul Stone and he has to sacrifice someone he loves to get to it. It was really unexpected that he sacrificed his stepdaughter and cried for her death. It was an interesting and complex dynamics between the two of them that I honestly felt was a good plot twist to the movie. I feel that finally, MCU was able to make a complicated and a three-dimensional villain that was not just straight up evil but has a complex reason for his actions.
First, it was Heimdall, then it was Loki and followed by Gamora's death. These are all unexpected deaths that I really did not even suspect at all.
The two finale fighting scenes.
Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, Drax, Mantis and Nebula versus Thanos on planet Titan. I had freaking goosebumps seeing them fighting together just like in the comics. It was beautiful seeing Dr. Strange opening and closing portals for his team to attack and disappear. Seeing Iron Man using his suit, constantly changing to show all of its new tricks. And Spider-Man in his new suit, exactly like in the comics with the additional extended 'spider legs'. It was glorious! But the scene where Dr. Strange decided to surrendered the Time Stone to Thanos so that Iron-Man would survive and the scene where Star-Lord found out that Thanos had killed Gamora were heartbreaking.
Back on Earth, it was Steve Rogers, Falcon, White Wolf, Black Widow, Hulkbuster, War Machine, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Black Panther, Shuri, Okoye and the Wakandan Forces versus Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive and the Outriders aliens. Oh My God! It was awesome and beautiful to see the battle. Everyone was giving their all. Okoye and Black Widow fighting against Proxima Midnight. Steve Rogers and Vision fighting against Corvus Glaive. Bruce Banner in Hulkbuster fighting against Cull Obsidian. And seeing Scarlet Witch releasing her unleashing her powers. And Thor came back to Earth with Rocket and Groot and turned the tide against their enemies. Each individual fight was choreographed well and as a whole, it was quite gorgeous seeing the battle from far.
And the part where Scarlet Witch had to kill Vision to prevent Thanos from taking the Mind Stone was overwhelmingly sad. Knowing that she has to be the one to kill her love to save trillions of lives all across the universe. And as soon as she did the deed, Thanos was easily able to use the Time Stone to reserve time and kill Vision to take the Mind Stone. Just like that, Thanos has all 6 Infinity Stones. Finally, when you feel that there's no hope and all, Thor came through and stabbed Thanos in the chest, injuring him pretty badly.
As fast as the feeling of hopefulness came, the feeling of despair came just as fast.
Thanos snapped his fingers and everything change.
The last scene where at least half of the superheroes died was fucking heartbreaking. I mean, you started to expect certain people to die but they just kept killing the good guys that you are left with less than half and no hope at all. They fucking kill Star-Lord, Drax, Mantis, Dr. Strange and Spider-Man, leaving behind Iron-Man and Nebula on Titan. And on Earth, they killed Falcon, White Wolf, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther and Groot.
It was only after the movie that I realized that kept the original Avengers alive - Steve Rogers, Iron-Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye (somewhere in the world).
And as usual for all MCU movies, the post-credit scene is always worth it. Even though, they killed Maria Hill and Nick Fury, the part where they showed that Fury sends out the distress call to Captain Marvel is exciting.
The part that really bothers me is during the press interviews for the movie, several of the actors and directors kept bringing up about a scene where all the superheroes and villains were together fighting it out. But during this movie, the superheroes was split into 2 groups fighting on 2 different planets. The differences between Captain America and Iron-Man were never properly addressed. So I'm really hoping that Avengers 4 will have a scene where all of them, including Captain Marvel, Hawkeye and Ant-Man and hopefully Wasp, are together - be it to fight against Thanos or even to celebrate their victory.
Looking forward to Avengers 4.
