This is the Unforgiven of superhero movies, a brutal yet tender portrayal of former heroes growing old. Logan is tired and world weary, waiting for death to take away his pain. Charles is 90, riddled with drugs to mute his mind, his "super weapon." Despite their friendship their relationship is fractured. Into their lives comes a new mutant and a road trip begins.
I don't want to say much more, having given away a little of the premise already explored in the films trailers. This is a tough, violent and sad film with few moments of humour. There is action but not of the blockbuster kind, one key car chase is like something from a 70's thriller.
This is the swan song of Logan and Charles, both actors giving it their all in their final performances as these characters. To bring them back after this film would undermine their work and the story here.
The film is brilliant and I can't recommend it enough - don't expect a traditional X-Men movie and you will be blown away. If the film itself were a mutant I would say its genes had been spliced with Mad Max and Shane, with a little bit of Children of the Corn (and I mean that in a good way). Excelsior!
Ridley Scot is back! After some less interesting movies he succeed to make an great one again! It isn't the greatest movie I have ever seen but I couldn't recall one fault or issues with this film. The acting was great especially with his carry Matt Damon! The rest of the cast did fairly good. Matt Damons character stranded on Mars and wants to find a way to survive until he is rescued. This is the main part of the film which was surprisingly funny. Mainly due to the optimistic attitude that Matt Damons character had. It was even funnier than some comedies I have seen this year. Besides that there are some really suspenseful scene with are handled very well by Ridley Scott. He build the suspense fairly slow but great. They also created a great setting of Mars, it really felt like a place which was gorgeously filmed.
Overall I would gave the film a 8,5 but unfortunately Trakt would allow me to give that many hearts so I rated it a 8. Simply because I liked my 9 rated films more than this one. Nevertheless I had a really good time with this entertaining, greatly directed and interesting film.
Fun movie!
As a comic book fan (and long-time reader/collector), I appreciated the nods to the comic version of the character, but like they did with all the other Marvel Cinematic Universe characters who've appeared on screen so far, the story is original and I think it can be followed and enjoyed by those who know nothing about Ant-Man before the movie starts.
I won't post any spoilers, but I will say I was satisfied how this character fits into the rest of the MCU and really enjoyed the special effects. The filmmakers did a good job of poking fun at some of the ridiculousness of tiny people fighting each other without it actually detracting from the story. The movie keeps a real sense of humor, which is one of the things I enjoy most about the Marvel movies. I'm interested to see how and what role Ant-Man will play in "Captain America: Civil War" next year.
Paul Rudd does a great job and is actually believable as a title character in an action film, (he's really come a long way from Clueless, huh?) and I love that bigger-name actors like Michael Douglas are all getting on board with these superhero movies. Evangeline Lilly, who already proved she can do action with the "Hobbit" movies, gets to kick some butt in this movie as well. I don't know anything about Corey Stoll, but he makes a pretty good bad guy.
Marvel seems to have figured out how to handle movies like this (ones where most of the mainstream audience knows little-to-nothing about the character.) Put them after most, if not all, the HUGE blockbuster movies of summer, but make them so fun that word-of-mouth will get people to come out. It worked with Guardians of the Galaxy last year, and I think it'll work with Ant-Man this year. For what it's worth, I liked Ant-Man better. I'd give this movie 3 out of 4 stars.
Damn, it must really suck to have been snapped while being on a plane.
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6/10
It’s certainly a good movie, but it comes nowhere close to being as good as Infinity War.
I enjoyed the first act. I thought there were some good surprises, especially with Thanos dying so soon, but once we moved to the time travel stuff, it all went down hill.
Thanos was not as good in this movie as he was in Infinity War. He didn’t have the same screen time, and he didn’t have the same depth. He was made into just another regular villain.
The action sequences were not as good or as personal as they were in Infinity War, and this is largely due to the fact that there’s no real sense of danger. We know Thanos will lose, it’s inevitable. I also felt as though the CGI for Thanos was not as good as it was in sinfonietta War. There were a few moments during the end battle that Thanos took me out of the movie.
Iron Man was expected to die, so it wasn’t surprising at all. But it was still emotional and one of the best things about the movie. Black Widow’s death was done terribly. The scene with her and Hawkeye fighting over who was going to die was just dumb, and it didn’t work. I was also a little confused because I though the whole point was that the person who takes the stone has to make a sacrifice of something they love to get it. By committing suicide, that means the other person has not made a sacrifice, and henceforth should not be able to receive the stone.
Time travel left a lot of plot holes.
Thor being turned into a fat comedy character was a terrible decision. It was fine at first for a few laughs, but they really should have reverted that somehow via time travel or something. It was bad. Hulk was super annoying in the movie too.
It wasn’t a bad movie, and it certainly did a good job of wrapping up most of the MCU, but it was definitely disappointing. Infinity War was magnificent and the characters were all balanced perfectly. There was non-stop action and great personal character moments. And then there’s Thanos, who was honestly the singular factor that made Infinity War such a great movie. But Endgame fails to follow all of what Infinity War did right. The characters are not as well balanced, we don’t get as many character moments. We don’t have an amazing deep villain, and we don’t have as much action.
I really though that the first act was good. It set up a tone that we’ve never really seen in the MCU. It made the movie feel unique and different, even if it didn’t have that much action in it. But then the time travel stuff made it into a generic movie for the second act. It felt lazy. And then the third act was a mixture of ups and downs. That end battle was good, but it wasn’t as good as the end battles in Infinity War. It lacked the personal moments.
I’ll see it one more time before I give it a rating.
The movie itself deserves an 8/10, but I have to give it a 9 because I feel like it was a very good conclusion to the Avengers/infinity stones story. There are plot holes concerning the time travel side of the story but I guess that was to be expected.
I ended up going back to an 8/10 because the movie gets worse when you watch it a second time. The fortnite scene is cringy, the all-female scene is so out of place in my opinion. The Hulk story line is developed out of screen during the timeskip which is unfortunate. And Thanos is too powerful without the stones, it makes absolutely no sense how he can literally fight every avenger without the glove and not even break a sweat
I really think the movie turned out great, with stunning visuals and emotional moments, good farewell scenes to some of the main characters and what I think was a satisfying ending. There is one scene, where all the heroes appear through the portals that is just epic.I really, really liked the movie. It is not perfect, but it is very good if you have been following the MCU for all these years.
