This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Logan Kenny’s review published on Letterboxd:
This review may contain spoilers.
Chris Evans in old age makeup looks like Joe Biden. A rock monster plays Fortnite. It has a slow motion sequence of girl power action, where every intact heroine walks down the warpath to fight the generic grey army they always fight. as much as things change, the more they stay the same. has two good performances, Jeremy Renner & Paul Rudd absolutely kill it, make their character scenes genuinely emotional and are the only two to fully get on the film’s wavelength. everything with Thor is disgraceful. it botches so many moments because of inept editing and photography, yet it gets a few right. it’s better than Infinity War because of the grace notes, the little gestures and sense of character relations that are the reasons that kids like me connected to the earlier instalments. it squanders a lot of them for plot but it does have them and if the actor sells it right (50/50 chance honestly, a lot of extremely bad performances in this, Ruffalo and Olsen come to mind as the most outright awful surprisingly) then it even had me tear up a little. while I’ve listed this as spoilers, the details I don’t want to describe, because even as a lapsed fan of these movies, seeing one of the last moments hit me hard. I remembered being a kid and going to see one with my dad, and it felt like an actual ending, a conclusion to a part of my life that never got closure. it would be nice if things could continue to end, if the journeys of those that have survived could be left to the imagination, and that the last frame of this universe could have been of two lovers embracing like time doesn’t exist. too much to ask for obviously. it would be nice if these characters of my childhood, before any of these movies happened, could get stories and adventures and emotional impacts that didn’t feel so forced a lot of the time, that didn’t exist in a never ending corporate machine, a product line that only stops when people stop buying. but honestly, apart from a couple moments, this movie is so long and numbing and filled with so much pointless callback shite that most of these little moments that I liked will fade to dust and be remembered as part of the cacophony of textureless sounds and images that dominated most of it. but still, I got a couple things out of it, at least for a moment or two. I guess I’ll take that. I guess that’s all you can ask for with these anymore.