Flagrantly, bombastically extravagant, it plays its audience like a hundred million fiddles. As an exercise of studio might, however, it has no peer. It can’t be judged as a stand-alone work since it doesn’t stand alone and isn’t - objectively speaking - even a very good piece of storytelling.
#AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR MOVIE#
It’s a scorched-earth movie - though not, of course, as visceral as its Fox cousin Logan, which was scorched earth plus arterial spray.
Watch People Try to Recap Every Marvel MovieĪs I write this I know so much that you don’t, and most of all, I know that Avengers: Infinity War is going to dazzle, stagger, and rile people up. Plainly, Marvel has done it again - only bigger. “I mean …” She thinks a bit, shrugs, walks out muttering, “What the hell.” So much pain over a movie with overpaid actors in costumes surrounded by various combinations of ones and zeros. “Tell them, ‘Don’t know anything going in. “So what would you have me tell readers?” “I can’t say anything about what happens, really.” She is curled up in a chair, repeating, “What the f- just happened?” over and over. Before the film, she couldn’t believe she was seeing it days ahead of the rest of the world, which made me feel like Super Dad. It’s after midnight on 4/24/18, and I’m sitting across from my 15-year-old daughter, who claims not to like movies much but is an exuberant Marvel fan, and who rocked and laughed and gasped throughout the long running time of Avengers: Infinity War.