DIRECTOR: Anthony
Russo and Joe Russo LEAD CAST: Josh Brolin, Robert
Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Cooper, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe
Saldana, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Bettany, Chadwick Boseman, Tom Holland, Peter
Parker, Pom Klementieff, Chris Pratt.
SCREENWRITER: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely PRODUCER: Victoria Alonso, Mitchell Bell,
Ari Costa, Louis D’Esposito, Jon Favreau, Kevin Feige, Michael Grillo, James
Gunn, Stan Lee, JoAnn Perritano, Nicholas Simon, Trinh Tran, Jen Underdahl EDITOR: Jeffrey Ford, Matthew Schmidt MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Alan Silvestri
GENRE: Fantasy, SciFi CINEMATOGRAPHER: Trent Opaloch DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures LOCATION: United States
RUNNING TIME: 160 minutes
Technical assessment:
3.5
Moral assessment:
2.5
CINEMA rating:
V14
Intergalactic despot Thanos (Josh Brolin) intensely fights one and all
for his dream of creating a new generation for a re-balanced universe by
eradicating half of all life on earth.
Possession of the six infinity
stones will give him god-like power to realize his dream. And all of the Marvel-ous superheroes from
Tony Stark to Groot, Avengers to Guardians of the Galaxy, met and unite in a
shared mission to decimate Thanos’ plans—by stopping the protagonist from
retrieving the infinity stones.
Avengers: Infinity War appears to be the epic that Marvel Cinematic Universe
(MCU) wants the eager fans to see and believe in. And judging from the 230 million times the
trailer was watched in its first 24 hours of showing, it happens to be the most
anticipated sequel of all the 19 MCU offerings. It is interesting, to say the
least, to see how Earth’s population of physically and mentally superior
beings—superheroes they’re called, and they number more than your fingers and
toes combined—would gather together and strategize, contributing their unique
individual powers and perceptions to take down a common enemy. The plot is the movie’s main selling point,
and as the story unfolds, it allows for all the playors to trade quips and have
adequate screen time they deserve. The
characters are at their best when they are most human—including the
raccoon—close-ups of them exhibiting human emotions give the film its heart. When the superheroes are being superhuman, and
therefore dependent on CGI, scenes often get too long, repetitive, and tiring.
This is not a
superhero movie, but a supervillain one.
Thanos is portrayed to be someone with a higher calling, and the movie
brashly proposes that the end justifies the means—a dangerous way to elicit
sympathy for Thanos who makes a supreme “sacrifice” for his goal. Just what is
Marvel up to—presenting a villain who is literally and so irritatingly powerful
as to make of the beloved superheroes a bunch of virtual cartoon characters? Short of giving you spoilers, we surmise that
there must be another sequel coming to satisfy enraged and aggrieved fans. Surely their heroes shouldn’t be allowed to
end up like this?
