IF you haven’t seen the latest blockbuster movie breaking all records, then I wonder what you are waiting for.
The excitement and eagerness for Avengers was extremely out of this world, as usual you know the Marvel Group spend a lot on publicity and marketing .Trailers have been on every blog, site and social media platforms, just like the Game of Thrones.
Everyone was waiting patiently for this new edition, I mean why not, it is the last of its kind(which by the way does not seem so at all)
I am great fan of the Avengers series. I love every character and super hero I can’t help but love them all, they have a way of getting into your life and sticking there. I remember how they introduced the first ever black superhero to appease the black fold, and they cashed out in over a billion dollars in revenues surpassing every imagination or expectation. So for all of us movie buffs we knew that this new one would definitely be a work over for them and it surely was, grossing over a billion dollars in four days, yes you heard me four days.
I have being thinking for a few days now, wondering how they had told the “Avengers” stories for years and preparing that one day the whole series would come to an end and they would have to be a link to all past editions and all the ever created different characters, sincerely the directors Anthony Russo, Joe Russo and the writers Christopher Markus and Stephen Mcfeely, are geniuses. I must commend them for the outstanding job carried out in making this movie a huge success, making it one of the greatest movie ever in history.
I will give a few stats on how well this movie has done In just 6 days and still counting comparing it to some others. So far the movie has made over 1.2b dollars in the cinema making over 357m dollars on its opening day , making it the highest ever in the movie industry world history. It is now obvious that they will make it into the world’s highest grossing movie of all time beating the 2b dollar bench mark. Presently only four films have made it into the 2b dollar ranking, they are ‘Avatar’ of 2009 they made 2.7b dollars, then we had ‘Titanic’ of 1997, followed by Star Wars; the Forces awakens (2015) and then finally ‘Infinity War’.
For you to get a clear understanding of this movie, its paramount that you have seen the other Marvel movies and the previous ‘Avenger” movies, because this movie brought previous characters to life and all editions had a critical role in this final one called End Game. So remember the last edition of the Avengers Infinity war, where at the end half of the population disappeared, I knew there was definitely going to be another one, which I told you to watch out for, and the introduction of “Captain Marvel” made us understand that she would be essential in putting an end to Thanos.
In this new movie, the super heroes alive had to seek a way to save all their loved ones that were trapped in time. In the process of thinking, ‘Ant Man” who had disappeared in his last movie, through the time machine came back and told them, that they could use the new Time machine to go back in time, reverse things and change all that Thanos had done, After much deliberations and with a few heroes volunteering to go on the mission, they started the race back in time to save the world and destroy Thanos for good.
There were loads of flash back and time travel, and in this process they started to retrace their lives back to undo Thanos’ snapped fingers. Tragedy rocked this Avengers boat hard. For me, there were some fighting scenes that dragged longer than normal but I couldn’t complain. If you are not careful and alert you might take a few naps, and miss the crucial parts of the movie. The best part of these movie for me was towards the end, when every super hero that ever lived in the Marvel group had to return to fight and destroy Thanos and his evil men, hence saving the world. And you all must love how Captain America commanded lightening with Thor’s famous hammer, Powerful!!!!
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadie, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillian, Danai Gurira, Bradley Cooper, Josh Brolin & Winston Duke
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Science- Fiction & Fantasy
Director; Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Written by: Christopher Markus, Stephen Mcfeely
Ratings: P13 (For Sequences of Sci-fi Violence and action and some languages)
Runtime: 182minutes
Studio: Marvel Studios
Release Date: April 26th 2019
My Verdict
It is obvious that a lot of sacrifices had to be made in the production of this fantastic new movie. Although, I had a bit of reservations here and there with the movie being over rated, over hyped and some scenes unnecessarily too long, I must confess that it was a very good movie after all, hence my score of 9.5/10. I am a huge fan of the Marvel group and the Avengers movie, having followed them from ‘The Incredible hulk” of 2008 till date.
They have produced a total of 22 movies till date having an average of 2 movies every year, and they have certainly gone from being good to being one of the greatest,making them to become one of the most successful film studios in history, with having almost every movie as a hit.
We couldn’t have asked for more as they have continuously set the bench mark for super hero movies so high. I am definitely recommending this movie, especially to my action movie lovers out there, I am quite sure you will enjoy this movie and you would understand why each previous edition had to end the way they did, the link and the connectivity in this final one was just impeccable, I must say.
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