AVENGERS INFINITY WAR NON SPOILER REVIEW

It is time for the ten years worth of hype for this film, or should I say six since Thanos was teased at the end of the first Avengers, anyway, it has been a long time coming for Avengers Infinity War, and I was lucky enough to see it, so let’s take a look at this film, from a non-spoiler side; no plot details, no big moments, nothing like that will be spoiled. That will drop in a couple days when everyone gets to see it. But let’s get on with the review.

Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, Infinity War brings together 30 of not only the Earth’s, however, the Universe’s mightiest heroes in a showdown with the mad titan, Thanos; a being bent on changing the living state of the universe with the Infinity Stones.

When you here a brief synopsis like this, it is crazy to see that there are 30 heroes in this film, that is no exaggeration, so it raises the question of how are these characters handled. And to that, the film handles all the characters mostly well. Every character gets at least one time to shine, and they are all memorable. With this insane cast of characters, there are some characters who get more screen time than others, and some whom get a little less. There are a few characters I wish got a little more screen time. 

With this large cast, we see different groups of characters throughout the film. Some characters converge by the end of the film. This does cause a few jumps throughout the film with the different groups, however, the film manages to focus on all the groups and plot threads with those characters in a relatively tidy manner. By the end of the film, there was one group of characters that joined with another, and I was so excited. You will most likely have the same feeling when you see that scene.

With the different groups of characters, there was no loss in the background of these characters. All the heroes in this film are still the same as you last saw them in this film. Thor is definitely the same than when he was seen in Thor Ragnarok. There was no drastic shift in tone of any of the characters. Between this and the other films, you do get a sense of the characters that have changed a little bit, and that is due to the time passing from Civil War and Guardians 2 to this film. The film doesn’t only show the shift in time with the new character looks, however with the greetings when some of the heroes meet one another for the first time in years.

I have been talking about all the heroes of the film, but I haven’t talked about the man, or should I say that titan of the film himself, Thanos, played by the remarkable Josh Brolin, who did arguably the best performance of the film. With the character, we explored the reason for his quest, and we see how he goes upon on achieving getting the stones, and how that impacts on him. THere are layers to the villain, which makes his great, however, there is no redeemable side to the character which makes him formidable. There are scenes in the film which the massive threat that the character is.

The film has a plethora of spectacular scenes. I said earlier that there are a lot of character meetings, and I loved all of them. Scenes with characters meeting one another were astonishing, as we see all these interactions which I have been anticipating for the past four years (and the past four months), to come to the big screen. The film does another great job in the action scenes. There are fight sequences, some of which aren’t on a large scale, however, were still awesome, and there were the other large action scenes which were amazing, as it worked as a sandbox for characters to interact with one another in battle 

At times, the film did feel like it was a little too fast, as there was little time to process what was going on in some scenes, which was a little bit of a shame. However, that is all due to how many characters this film focuses on.

The visual techniques in the film were great. The cinematography was great in this film, it captured the amazing CG of Thanos in great detail, which was amazing on the big screen. The film had less shaky cam this time, which for me was brilliant. At times, the camera did feel like it was moving a little too fast, however that might be on me, for where I was sitting. Tieing this back to the consistency in the characters, the film had each individual scores for the different character’s debut scene in the film, which was great to see carried over from the previous films. It reminded me very much of the first Avengers in that instance.

The tone of this film is something I have not seen from any other Marvel Studios film before this. The film very much does play on the tone of comedy at times, with the right characters like the Guardians, and Iron Man, however, this film does get very dark and grim at times. This is darker than any other PG13 rated superhero film I have seen. I won't spoil what makes it dark, but when you see it, you’ll know.

In conclusion, Avengers Infinity War  is a spectacle and with amazing directors, spectacular performances from the cast (especially from Josh Brolin), and a talented group of individuals working behind the scenes, the film lives up to the hype of the ten years of Marvel Studio's success, as it delivers on a brilliant story, with great action, and ultimately great characters. I thoroughly enjoyed this spectacular film. 

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