Vengadores: Endgame

Lo que todos pensaron que pasaría en los Vengadores: Endgame en tres horas, en realidad se hace en veinte minutos y está envuelta en una depresión total. El resto es una comedia muy al estilo Ocean's Eleven, o Regreso al futuro. Parte II, o El gran Lebowski. Bajo la batuta de Marvel en su mejor forma y con un final épico, los fanáticos gritarán en el último cuarto de hora. El final de una era como debería ser, a pesar de juegos un poco confusos con paradojas del tiempo. En cualquier caso, no he salido más feliz del cine este año. (24.04.2019)

Obrovské zklamání, de nuevo iré en contra de la corriente local, pero no se puede describir la emoción por ver otra épica película de acción como la entrega anterior y la decepción con Endgame, cuando me quedé dormido después de unos treinta minutos. Gracias a mi amigo por darse cuenta y despertarme a tiempo, ya que corría el riesgo de perderme toda la función. La primera hora fue aburrida, la segunda hora extremadamente extraña, confusa y caótica, y finalmente un final casi emocionante pero típicamente estadounidense. ¿Así es como terminar una serie de 22 películas? Pero aparentemente a la mayoría le gusta y seguramente seguirán contentos saltando por millones. (05.05.2019)

There is no doubt about the fact that the realization possibilities of a Hollywood blockbuster are at their peak. An expertly crafted ride that has no time to hesitate or fumble. But it lacked emotionally for me more than I was willing to admit at first. The anticipation of Thanos' uncompromising body count disappears at the snap of a finger, and where others had tears rolling down their faces, I just sat nervously. In that spectacular wringer of emotions, I actually enjoyed one very unexpected emotion when the two grown men just chat on the way to the car. The rest passed me by. Kevin Feige will be taught about someday. Hats off to him. (06.05.2019)

I'm not a big fan of comic book CGI coloring books, but I have to capitulate here. Especially thanks to the middle section, when it clicks together beautifully like a sophisticated jigsaw puzzle that recalls all the previous Marvel movies, and the film rolls out such incredible fan service that it's almost admirable. That and the last nostalgic quarter of an hour will actually show how the suits from Marvel have it perfectly thought out in advance, even ten or fifteen years in advance. A perfectly tuned machine that is unparalleled in today's film studio constellation. Kevin Feige is a stud. (06.05.2019)

Though not outright admiration, Endgame does at least deserve sincere recognition for how the creators managed to link the more than twenty films of the Marvel Universe so far, developing motifs from pretty much every one of them, but still holding things together somehow. And also because, even though the result was clear in advance (that end of Infinity War would be reversed), the way there managed to surprise more than once. The time travel scenes are really quite original. On the other hand, the effort to show at least for a moment almost every single character that’s had screen time in the ten-year history of the Marvel movies ended up hurting it. I felt it was way too overcrowded (both in the number of characters, as well as in the motifs, styles and moods), and I wasn’t able to fully focus and immerse myself in it. It also carries on with the typical problem of the Avengers films, the lack of a face of their own (which doesn’t apply to the solo outfits). It’s simply aesthetically uninteresting. I’m also giving it a 7/10, and the lower rating is because of what they did with Thor. That wasn’t humour, that was pure cringe. (26.04.2019)