Review | Avengers: Endgame film review – Marvel’s Infinity Saga reaches its perfect conclusion
- The Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise wraps up with a three-hour masterpiece of irreverent humour, action and emotion
- The Russo brothers managed to close more than two dozen character arcs with stunning efficiency
5/5 stars
Eleven years after Iron Man was introduced to unsuspecting summer crowds, Marvel Studios wraps up their unprecedented 22 film “Infinity Saga” with a rousing victory lap that bursts with emotional catharsis, playful nostalgia, and a flurry of memorable hero moments.
Already on course to become the most successful film of the franchise, if not of all time, Avengers: Endgame raises the roof on what long-form narrative cinema can be.
Since taking the reins on Captain America: The Winter Soldier , directorial siblings Anthony and Joe Russo have quickly become custodians of the Avengers Universe, bottling a pitch perfect cocktail of superhero spectacle, irreverent humour, and disarming pathos, across four of the series’ most pivotal chapters.
With last year’s Avengers: Infinity War , they delivered a blindsiding cliffhanger that saw arch-villain Thanos victorious, and many of the series’ most popular and profitable heroes reduced to dust.
Audiences came in their droves, only to leave distraught, shell-shocked, and desperate for resolution, as Spider-Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and most of the Guardians of the Galaxy fell on the battlefield.