“ALL MARVEL SUPER HEROS RETURN TO SAVE THE WORLD”
Although the hype and advert for this movie was so good, I really can’t explain how I feel about this movie and I hate to feel that was towards the end of an action movie. It has taken me 2 weeks to coordinate my thoughts and come up with a review, yet I still find it difficult to review. I even had to seek the opinions of friends to be sure that I wasn’t in any way bias and that the feeling of disappoint was mutual, well I wasn’t totally right as most people felt that it was a perfect movie and a few were disappointed at the end. Even at that most of them wait anxiously to see the next episode of the return of the “Avengers”, I am sure that I might also see the next avengers.
Some of us didn’t feel this particular ‘Avengers movie’ and for us that was so sad. When I have to think so hard to come up with a review for a very good and highly rated block buster movie, then something is absolutely wrong. I would absolutely not want to spoil it for the great Avengers fans, who will still earnestly go and see this movie and even the next, I am kind of worried and skeptical about seeing the next part as they didn’t kill this one for me, but after reading and analyzing it with experts, I guess I have a rethink. I was totally devastated at the end, because I absolutely didn’t see that coming and I was of great confidence and courage that it would end well, and I was totally wrong, they crashed all hopes and dashed my expectations. The honest truth is that my feelings didn’t stop them from still surpassing box office initial forecast.
Marvel movies have always surpassed expectations year in year out for the past 10years. They started with Iron Man in 2008, this totally stole the hearts of everyone, there by changing the game globally, releasing award movies back to back since then. Every year during summer they dominate the cinema with a brand new movie, thereby turning it into an event and making the lead actors even more famous, in the process also selling franchises of the newly initiated characters, they have being amazing at this. The release of the New Avengers: Infinity Wars was no different from the orders smashing every available record again.
The movie crushed domestic and worldwide box office records, and it hasn’t even opened in the world’s biggest market (China). The movie has smashed all records to become the best opening weekend movie of all times. In North America the movie grossed $250m surpassing “Star Wars: The Force Awaker”
With $247.9m, totally they have made $630 if we add up both foreign and global figures, making this movie the biggest opening movie of all times. The $380m made worldwide is next immediately after “Fast and Furious”, the alarming information is that they haven’t even launched in the biggest market, which totally means that they would rake in much more income and it means the whole crew will be smiling to the bank again this time around.
Avengers brought together so many super heroes, which included Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Spiderman, Captain America, Black Panther T’challa and many more other marvel heroes. It sounded quiet unbelievable when we first heard that, they were going to produce a movie with almost every Marvel hero in the industry, but they surprised everyone and went on to produce this award winning movie. It was absolutely amazing and mind blowing seeing everyone together in one movie and at the same time.
It’s absolutely obvious that they have being cooking this for a very long while, by dishing out amazing and interesting characters individually every year and then, deciding to have a combined movie with all the characters ever created. It was a well thought out and planned movie, with Black Panther still in the cinema even after 11weeks of its first release, even at that they are still creating a lot of impact, buzz and revenue for the company. Marvel was right having a new movie featuring the former lead actor T’Challa from “Black Panther”, that singular act was definitely going to help them surpass their sales expectations for this new movie. So far the Marvel group has raked in over $15b in revenue worldwide and are still moving on, making them so unbeatable.
The Directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo were splendid, and absolutely did put out a good show, featuring over 36 super heros, including Scarlett Johansson, Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Pratt. The movie which was mainly shot in Britain was said to have had an estimated budget of about $300m, thereby making it one of the most expensive movie ever shot, even 400 times more expensive than some individual movies. With this movie they surpassed the record of “The Pirates of the Caribbean”, which had a reported budget of $378.5m. Reports also tell us that Robert Downey Jr. (who played the role of Iron Man since 2008) would be paid $200m for his role in the amazing movie. Although they have raked in $630m globally in the 1st week, they would need to match it against the expenses incurred during the production of this movie.
To the movie itself, which started very well with “Thanos” the evil guy trying to collect the space stone (blue) from Loki, that could help him read minds, he killed “Loki’ in the process of trying to obtain the stone and also destroyed Thor’s powers in the process, because he didn’t want him to save his brother “Loki”. “Thanos” was on a mission to collect all 5 stones from all the corners of the earth, to make him the most powerful and unbeatable. He went on to steal the “Time stone” (green) that was in Doctor Strange’s possession, thereby having the power to control time. He stole the Reality Stone (Red), the Power stone (purple), the mind stone (yellow) and the soul stone. After stealing all the stones “Thanos” became so powerful, he felt he could destroy the world and turn it into what he wanted. The movie was action packed from start to finish
The only sad aspect of this beautiful movie, which made me score it less than a 10/10, was towards the tail end. You know the feeling and attachment you have towards super heroes, where by you create myths in your head, that they are mortals and hence cant die, I had created that in my head, and suddenly all of a sudden, you see some of these super heroes drop dead and vanish into the thin air, you ask yourself “but why?”. I did ask myself that questions severally and couldn’t just wrap my head around the fact that they might be gone for good, forgetting that they always have a way of always bringing them back. It turns out that they are already building up anticipation for the next Avengers, which a lot of fans can’t even wait to see, what they have to reveal next. So I guess “it’s absolutely not over until it’s over” Right? Considering the fact that the Marvel group is here to stay and they have no plans of existing the movie industry, it’s obvious that they wouldn’t allow the Avenger’s story to just come to an end, after all they need to continuously make extra revenue if they desire to stay on top of their competitors, that for me was my consolation. Please do check this movie out to pass your own verdict.
Cast : Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chriss Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Tom Hiddleston, Paul Bettany, Idris Alba, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie etc
Ratings : PG13 (for intense sequences of Sci-fi violence and action throughout, language and some crude references)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Written by : Christopher Markus, Stephen Mcfeely
Time: 156 mins
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
To my verdict I would say this movie deserves an 8/10, please don’t judge me. Off course it was a perfectly well produced movie, it was absolutely amazing and also interesting. I didn’t score it more, only because it didn’t end how I envisaged and expected, that for me was really heart breaking.
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Linda Ochugbua
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