With real stakes, Endgame makes for a fitting finale to the Avengers franchise via nparts
“If I tell you what happens, it won’t happen.” That’s a line from the final chapter of The Avengers, now spanning 22 films since we first met Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man more than a decade ago. I won’t even tell you who says it, but I swear it was included as a shot across the bow of critics: Don’t spoil this!
A lot does happen in Endgame, so much that the three-hour runtime goes by in a snap. It picks up three weeks after the end of the last movie, which concluded with big-bad Thanos – Josh Brolin if he looked like an aubergine wrestler – wishing away half the population of the universe. Yes, birds too. The rest of the survivors – including Captain America , Black Widow , Hawkeye , War Machine and Ant-Man – concoct a scheme to undo what Thanos did. Iron Man tells them it’s wishful thinking, but damned if he doesn’t crack the solution himself. And isn’t wishful thinking what superhero movies are all about anyway?
The core avengers do most of the narrative heavy lifting in the heist-y script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, but I was impressed with the depth of character afforded to Karen Gillan’s blue-hued Nebula, adopted daughter of Thanos and latter-day member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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