Avengers: Infinity War Early Review: Daring With Startling Climax

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A still from Avengers: Infinity War.

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Here it is! The moment of truth! Fans couldn’t keep calm when the trailer of Avengers: Infinity War dropped - the superhero epic that brings together Earth's mightiest heroes along with the Guardians of the Galaxy. After a lot of anticipation and the hope that this Russo Brothers directorial sticks the landing, the film is finally here and Marvel devotees cannot keep calm!

Boasting the most star-studded cast, the film stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle amongst others.

The critically acclaimed and the maniacally successful Black Panther has definitely raised the bar. So will this Marvel mash-up live up to the expectations of its fans?

The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Monday (23 April) night and here are some of the early reviews.

This grand, bursting-at-the-seams wrap-up to one crowded realm of the Marvel superhero universe starts out as three parts jokes, two parts dramatic juggling act and one part deterministic action, an equation that’s been completely reversed by the time of the film’s startling climax. Huge is the operative word here — for budget, scope and size of the global audience...Without giving anything away, the climax is startling in its gravity and no Marvel fan will leave before the long final credits scroll gives way to the traditional kicker tease at the very end, which amplifies the ending by serving up even more questions, not answers

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

The film dances nimbly across the cosmos from one group to the next, turning the screws on each group, shattering them and pulling them back together in new combinations..With all these different strands, you might expect to see the gears move to keep this intricate plot humming, as in Age Of Ultron and Civil War. But this time the Russos achieve the impossible. Not only did they bring all these disparate characters and stories together, but they made it look effortless. And the ending laughs in the face of carbonite when it comes to raising the stakes for next time.

Helen O’Hara, Empire

The Avengers: Infinity War poster.

How long can you fake out audiences without pissing them off? <em>Avengers: Infinity War</em> leaves viewers up in the air, feeling exhilarated and cheated at the same time, aching for a closure that never comes ... at least not yet. The Russo brothers have clearly never learned the concept that less is more.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

The Avengers: Infinity War art work.(Photo Source: Facebook)

Avengers: Infinity War feels like a Marvel movie on bath salts. Trying to describe any part of it alone will make you sound like you’ve lost your mind; trying to describe it all kind of makes it sound like it lost its mind...It is more of a Thanos movie than an Avengers movie...Avengers: Infinity War isn’t the best Marvel movie. But it’s Marvel’s most daring.

Alex Abad-Santos, Vox

Avengers: Infinity War contains the most dramatic cliffhanger of any major blockbuster since ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ and everything leading up to it is a marathon. After 18 movies and 10 years of Marvel superheroes battling through overlapping plots, sibling directors Anthony and Joe Russo unite nearly every single character for a series of epic showdowns and one giant, universe-shattering threat. It’s a lot more cohesive than ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ and the sprawling, busy ensemble often feels like every Marvel movie engaged in overlapping conversation, like a slow-zoom from the Robert Altman playbook laced with CGI. As a virtuoso juggling act, Infinity War has no real parallel in popular culture; as a movie, it’s an impressive montage of greatest hits until the gut punch of a finale.

Eric Kohn, Indiewire

Infinity War is big, blustery and brave, taking viewers to places that they may not be used to going. Whether Thanos ends up getting everything he wants is one thing. But audiences should be warned that they probably won’t.

Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post

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