Avengers End Game Review

For 11 years, fans have flocked to the theatres to watch Marvel’s latest movie. 11 years of character development, intertwined plots, Easter eggs, and rising tension all to get to April 26, 2019. No one saw the release of Iron Man in 2008 as the beginning of a new era in Hollywood, but the 1.3 billion dollar opening of Avengers Endgame established Marvel as the dominant studio of our timLast year, Marvel released its best movie to that date, Avengers Infinity War. Endgame was a sequel to this movie but also, in a way, to the entire franchise. As the name implies, Endgame is the end for some of Marvel's most beloved and oldest characters. Due to this, Marvel needed to make a movie good enough to give these characters proper send offs.

The movie uses its 3 hour runtime to create some slow dialogue scenes for the first three-fourths of the movie. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as it makes the final action sequence even more epic. In Infinity War, fight scenes were scattered throughout the movie, whereas in Endgame the only real fight is at the end. The wait is well worth it because once the action starts, it may go down as one of the best fights in cinematic history.

Not only does Endgame close out the careers of the older Marvel characters, but it also bridges the gap between the past and the future. With several of the main actors leaving their contracts with Marvel, something needed to be done to layout the future of the Marvel universe. Endgame answered many questions about the legacy of characters that don’t make it through the movie.

Above all else, Endgame serves as a gift to all the devoted Marvel fans that have followed the movies through the years. The movie is chocked full of references and tie-ins to past Marvel movies. The plot itself revolves around a Back to The Future-esque journey into the past that pitts characters against their past selves. Watching the heroes encounter and interact with the settings and scenes of past movies was a very enjoyable way to build up to the final fight.

The future of Marvel movies is for the most part unknown. For the first time since 2010, nobody really knows what is coming next. A few of the next movies have been rumored or announced but there is not a long-term plan like we've seen before. It will be hard for Marvel to put out another movie as big as End Game for some time because they essentially will need to rebuild the entire storyline. It is possible, however, that in another 10 years, Marvel might be able to top End Game.

By Jake Bogartz