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Friday 26 April 2019

Avengers Endgame: a brief (Spoiler-free) review





TRANSCRIPT:


I didn’t plan to review Endgame, I figured that ground would
be well covered by so many more notable people than I that there was little
point. But the film so completely blew away all my expectations that I feel
like I have to put my thoughts out there even if nobody hears them.

But this presents another challenge because I want to keep
at least this review spoiler-free, if I find the words for a longer, more
in-depth one with spoilers I may or may not make that one too. I’ll level with
you guys, I’m writing by the seat of my pants here, I have no idea how I can
articulate my thoughts on Endgame without going into spoiler territory because
to quote Luke Skywalker, this is not going to go the way you think. To the
point then, Endgame is absolutely incredible. It is scary how good this film
is, and how well they managed to make 11 years, and 21 films worth of build pay
off and feel not only satisfying but also natural, while somehow at the same
time defying all expectations.
I don’t even feel like I can tell you what I mean by that
without going into spoiler territory, but nothing in this film unfolded like I
thought it would going in. This film is over three hours long and I felt almost
none of that runtime, those three hours flew by. Not only is this film a worthy
conclusion of the 21 that preceded it, it even manages to build upon them and
add more context. But if you haven’t seen it yet, you NEED to go in blind, I
would say remaining unspoiled is even more important now than it normally is.

Endgame is like the final performance after a long, long
period of rehearsals and every beat is hit. I actually cannot conceive of
anyone being disappointed by this film, I certainly wasn’t, it is absolutely
worth the price of admission and if there was one film I’d say you HAD to see
in theatres, it would be this one.