Hey guys! Lets talk about Avengers: Infinity War, the star-studded new movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  Once again, THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS so don’t read it if you haven’t seen the film.

Infinity War, which features over 20 main characters from across the MCU, had a large job to do. They had to find a way to feature all of these characters while at the same time having a coercive story. And I may say that they pulled it off, even at the expense of Paul Rudd as Ant-Man and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye.

The film stars Josh Brolin as Thanos, as he travels everywhere in the known universe in an attempt to find the Infinity Stones. What makes the movie unique is the fact that it really gets into the psyche of a villain, played brilliantly by Brolin. It shows Thanos as a venerable man who like all the other characters, has loved people and has actual emotions. The scene that really got me was when Thanos had to kill Gamora in order to get the Soul Stone. You can see visible tears coming down Thanos’ face as he has to sacrifice the one he loves in order to get something he loves even more: power.

While the acting is all top notch, with other great performances by Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlett Witch and Paul Bettany as Vision, that doesn’t distract from the paceless plot. Yes, they made the story coherent, but that doesn’t make it good. Instead of a dramatic back-and-forth struggle between the Avengers and Thanos, the movie turns into a more “Thanos destroys everybody and there’s no hope” type of movie. There were very few points in the movie where it seemed like anybody else besides Thanos was going to win. This was probably the biggest thing I had against it. There needed to be more of a push and pull, instead of just a big push by Thanos.

You can’t talk about Infinity War without discussing its haunting ending. It truly took me by surprise. As Thanos makes a fist, he disappears and slowly, people just start disappearing. First goes Bucky, then Drax, then Groot, and then countless other heroes that you can find online somewhere start disintegrating. The part about the ending that made it haunting was the music, or lack thereof. As characters start disappearing, all we hear in the background is just this soft noise. I just want to point out the relationship between Tony and Peter. In one of the final emotional scenes, Tony puts his arms around Peter and truly becomes the father figure that Peter had been searching for his whole life. This part in particular, as well as the rest of the scene, is what makes the ending a truly haunting experience.

All in all, the film was ok. It was definitely fun to see different Avengers characters paired up with different Guardians of the Galaxy, which allowed to have the movies signature humor that Marvel is always known for, but where the film falls is in its plot filled with hopelessness. Avengers: Infinity War is in theaters now.