My review and rating for Infinity War

I do enjoy the fact that, even though Marvel movies are the bane of his existence, DC Fan still watches each and every last one of them immediately after they're released.

That is awesome

I have! Today, in fact...

I really enjoyed it! Had a lot of fun and thought there were some excellent character moments and genuine surprises throughout... But I don't think it cracks my top ten comic movies... Maybe not even my top ten MCU movies. Not to say that I'm disappointed, I just didn't quite like it as much as I'd hoped.

How about you? What'd you think?

I really liked it. I've seen it twice now, and I just liked it the first time, but I think I loved it the second time. I went in with some doubt, but I loved Thanos and I really liked the way it felt like a real movie from the MCU for the first time in awhile.

Thor and Thanos made this movie what it is. It'd be mediocre without their presence on screen.

I want to see it a third time, but these ticket prices are killing me. I do recommend a second viewing, though.

I agree on both points. I got used to Titan and how that looked after awhile, and it even looked pretty good once Thanos showed it off during its heyday, but a lot of the other locations looked pretty weak (except Vormir, which was gorgeous in most shots).

I really missed Cap and his crew. It felt like he was barely in it at all. And where's Hawkeye? I know he's with his family, but come on. He should've been in this one.

The good news is that it looks like the original Avengers will team up for Avengers 4 and hopefully get the majority of the screen time.

Pros:

1. It took 19 movies, but for the 1st time ever MCU finally has a villain who isn't awful or lame. A "former" MCU fan (who has been invited to never come back to this forum) used to say MCU is better than DC because MCU always makes the heroes the main character while DC makes the villain the main character. Well, Infinity War takes a page out of DC's playbook and makes the villain the main character and it's the 1st time in 19 movies that the villain of an MCU movie isn't awful or lame.

2. Loki repeating Tony Stark's line from the 1st Avengers movie ("We have a Hulk") and then Thanos proceeding to give Hulk such a severe beatdown that Hulk turned into a 1000-pound coward and was too scared to show up for the rest of the movie.

3. Loki finally getting killed. Loki ("I'm evil because I was adopted and Daddy Odin loved Thor more than me") has always been an awful, lame, and useless villain.


Cons:

1. Drax claiming to be "invisible". Stupid scene that added nothing to the movie.

2. MCU ripping off The Illiad with Thanos sacrificing his daughter to get the soul stone.

3. Too many MCU characters were ready and willing to put half the universe at risk for their own selfish needs:

a. Starlord - threw a hissy fit and helped Thanos to break free

b. Doctor Strange - gave Thanos the time stone (which Thanos used to reverse time and get the mind stone from Vision's forehead later) just to save Iron Man and sacrifice half the universe; also knew which of the 14 million possible paths was the only path to defeat Thanos but took that secret to the grave and let Thanos kill half the universe rather than tell anyone else the winning path (MCU fans made the dumb excuse that telling others the winning path would bias their decisions. Of course, it's supposed to bias their decisions - so they can make the right decisions to defeat Thanos! If you're given the correct answers to a test BEFORE the test, of course you're going to write down those correct answers when you take the test. Who would be so stupid to NOT write down the correct answers if they're given the correct answers BEFORE the test?)

c. Scarlet Witch - made an entire country fight Thanos just so she can keep her robot sex toy

4. Spider-Sense not working properly again as Spider-Man gets ambished and taken hostage by a guy with no superpowers.

5. An ending that will probably be reversed in Avengers 4, resulting in this movie having no stakes and basically being a waste of 2 and 1/2 hours since 90% of what happened in this movie will have been reversed in Avengers 4.

6. Captain Marvel MIA again. Her movie supposedly takes place in the 1990s so she already exists in the MCU timeline, yet she was MIA for the battles against the Chitauri, Ultron, and now Thanos even though Fury has her pager number.

7. This movie was a big mess, constantly jumping all over the place from 1 location to another.


Rating:

My ratings for movies and TV shows are always fair and objective and without any bias. Currently, 6 voters have rated Infinity War a zero out of 10 here: Rate AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (2018).

But despite the many flaws, I don't think Infinity War was as awful as most of MCU's other movies, especially the recent ones which have been really awful (e.g. Civil War, Doctor Strange, GotG2, SMH, Ragnarok, and Black Panther). So I'll rate Infinity War a 4 out of 10.

You're right! That's comfortably better than nearly every DCU movie! 

Why is that?