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'Avengers: Infinity War'

Comic Book Perfection

By Thomas MartinPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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Starring - Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Tom Hiddleston, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Idris Elba, Danai Gurira, Peter Dinklage, Benedict Wong, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Chris Pratt, William Hurt, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Ross Marquand

Director - Anthony & Joe Russo

Rating - 12A

Length - 2 hours 29 minutes

A movie ten years in the making, personally I have been waiting for this movie since I was first introduced to the wide world of Marvel Comics, some 30 years ago. My wife, daughter, and I went to see the midnight showing of Infinity War, my wife and I have seen it a second time since, and even now I still struggle to put into words what witnessing this event meant to me both as a comic book and movie fan.

Head of MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Kevin Feige teased that every other previous movie had been leading to this conclusion and yes it is a conclusion, but also a beginning.

Set just after the events of Thor: Ragnarok, The Mad Titan “Thanos” (Brolin) has two of the Infinity Stones and is coming after the rest personally after agents like The Collector (Del Toro) and Loki (Hiddleston) failed to deliver others to him. Infinity War starts very dramatically and keeps the drama and suspense going until it gets almost too much to handle, littered with so many in jokes and banter between old friends and new meetings. The scenes between Tony Stark (Downey Jr.) and Dr. Strange (Cumberbatch) are so good, two of my favourite actors on screen at same time.

Anthony & Joe Russo, directors of The Winter Soldier and Civil War, weave a truly universal movie. There are so many plots going on at the same time and while they are all separate, they all link together at the right time and in the right way. In my Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 review I mentioned that in this movie we will finally see the Guardians meet the Avengers, and when they do it doesn’t disappoint. Thor (Hemsworth) spends the whole movie referring to Rocket (Cooper) as rabbit and Tony’s reaction to meeting Drax (Bautista) and Mantis (Klementieff) is hilarious.

While the movie is hilarious, the sense of doom and finality is where the movie excels. From the first moment Thanos is on screen, he demands your attention and while Loki for a long time was the MCUs best villain, he has been monumentally usurped by a truly evil and unstoppable force.

To go into details about the plot would ruin it because there is so much happens and so many surprises. I can give some pointers: we get a huge battle scene that makes the airport scene in Civil War look like a little tiff, we are offered some of the best visuals I have seen on a cinema screen and one of the most emotional moments I have seen on screen in a long time. Tom Holland (Spider-Man) I tip my hat to you, sir. When you see the movie, you will understand what I mean.

Friends and family will quite often ask me about movies and once upon a time I used to work in a video store, my specialty was finding movies for people based on what movies they liked; this is not the case with Infinity War, this is an amazing movie, quite possibly one of the best comic book movies ever, but unless you have seen all the other MCU movies, you would be totally lost watching this. I know that isn’t exactly the best thing to say while writing a review, but it’s the truth.

If you are a newbie to the MCU then if there was a movie to give you a reason to watch all the others, it’s this movie. Amazing story, acting, action, hilarious, dramatic, tense, emotional, sad and above all else, very Marvel. (See Justice League, this is how you do a superhero ensemble movie.)

Go see this movie, but first watch all the others in order of release as this movie deals with plot lines featured in almost every other MCU Movie.

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Thomas Martin

Husband, Father, Movie nut.

Trained Journalist specialised in Movie Reviews.

Website - https://thesilvertheatreblog.wordpress.comTwitter - s1lvertheatre

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