All the actors can do once the logic breaks down is sell its believability with a lengthy, emotional stare. It's the kind of "this is how things are going to be" declaration that viewers can expect to be upended in an action-film-cliché way, but Infinity War doesn't justify or explain the eventual switcheroo. The most egregious example comes from Stark and Strange, who stop talking to each other midway through the film after they agree upon certain terms. These cross-franchise connections also never rise much beyond sharp-tongued one-liners. And fallouts from other MCU films are either totally ignored or glossed over in single-sentence blips. Black Widow's silence as a character-both as a remarkable action-hero fighter and as an emotional rock-is deafening. Hawkeye's retirement and absence is left untouched at the moment the Avengers' all-hands-on-deck situation heats up.
Captain America and Iron Man never take a moment to lock eyes and establish any progress or recognition in their long-standing feud. So what goes wrong? For starters, the frigid, fractured state of the core Avengers team only gets lip service.
#PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE TWO THRONES FULL#
(My notebook is packed full of quality quotes from a range of heroes I'm choosing to leave those as a surprise for filmgoers.) The world is in dire straits, and the dialogue reflects this, but every early-film exchange benefits from MCU's established formula of gritty-meets-witty. Thor and Star Lord come from divergent comedic perspectives while forging a strategic path, which plays out with great dialogue-and this sequence is peppered with tasteful quips from the rest of the GotG cast, to boot. Tony Stark and Doctor Strange make for a great anti-hero pair by mining opposite ends of the pompous-ass rainbow. Thanks to Thanos' latest strides, it doesn't take long for these casts to commingle and face off in puffed-ego fashion. With that backdrop, the film starts off on a nimble foot.
Thanos, the MCU's baddest bad of them all, is finally making good on his evil promise to collect every Infinity Stone, which would allow him to overtake the Universe by way of incredible, mystical might. The casts of Thor Ragnarok, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-man Homecoming, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 each received juicy loose-ends opportunities in their respective films to segue into the crux of Infinity War all those characters get to cash in.
Infinity War opens with an impressive cross-stitching of plotlines and film franchises. The film's first hour, for example, will make you wonder what any nay-saying critic is talking about. I'd be crazy to say this sequel is without merit. Thanks to satisfying action sequences, location variety, and cross-franchise pollination, the film earns its "Avengers 3" status (a feat that the second film, Age of Ultron, fell short of).
#PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE TWO THRONES MOVIE#
Forget Superman dying to Doomsday's spiky hands in the '90s comic book pages we're talking about every Avenger-affiliated movie star combining forces to face a single, long-teased foe. Infinity War has long been touted as the face-off to end all superhero face-offs. It is definitely not a spoiler to say that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is significantly changed by this film. The biggest Marvel superhero film to date leaves a ton of stuff for its viewers to unpack, and fans of Marvel's recent high-quality output may assume that's great news. We have taken great care to tiptoe around plot beats in justifying our compliments and criticisms and have even avoided mentioning certain aspects already revealed in film trailers.Īs the lights turned on and the credits began to roll, I blankly recalled the wreckage-figurative and literal-that had just whizzed by during Avengers Infinity War. Warning: Avengers Infinity War is a particularly spoilable film.
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