Rent Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

So amazing that unfortunately it fails. If it were about half of what it is, it would be great... - Avengers: Infinity War review by EP

This film has multiple characters from different Marvel stories all coming together and has huge production values, so I wanted to watch it. Unfortunately it is just too much to take in.

Maybe they should have split it into 2 or tried a bit less hard. Too many characters, too many sub stories, too much telling jokes/funny parts then killing off a character suddenly, too much! The part when you realise you've been watching an alternative reality because the baddy can control reality is just plain absurd and a little annoying because it feels that the film is being "clever".

It's all so full on all the time, rather than being entertaining it's just exhausting and you start drifting off. Maybe if I were a teenager not a 43 year old it would genuinely have more appeal...but not for me even though I do often enjoy Marvel films. Also, the ending doesn't really end the film and could even give rise to a sequel, It's a shame as I really did want to (and genuinely tried to) like this more.

Entertaining - Avengers: Infinity War review by CP Customer

Well, I liked it.  A great way to spend a couple of hours plus.  Nice to see Captain America looking a bit more mature with the beard and deeper voice, and Chris Hemsworth is always worth a view i.m.h.o.  He always looks as if he's about to corpse.  Great to see all then actors together, although I was a bit confused about what the red guy did??

Well I liked it - Avengers: Infinity War review by MAT

Having watched all the preceding movies, I enjoyed this bringing together of all the loose ends in two one combined world. It is part one of two, so the ending of course is not really an ending as we have a final serving to come, but it did set up the next one nicely.

You need to see all the other movies first of course, but suspend belief and you will have a ball.

Infinity means the stones, doesn't it? - Avengers: Infinity War review by Strovey

As I have noted before many times on my Blog I am not a Marvel Comic Book or film fan. I’m not invested in the stories or characters and I do not look forward to the latest instalment of the franchises whatever they may be. I will watch the films and I will not dislike them for the sake of disliking them and being contra-cool.

I do have to say that explosions, leaping and punching for an hour of running time bores me rigid but this film, story and franchise clearly is not aimed at me.

Infinity War is the penultimate film in this huge rambling series. The final instalment coming up, it’s on my list, is Avengers: End Game. Which knowing this, even when Infinity War was first released into the cinema means that no matter what happens in this film you just know it’s not the ‘end’ and also the next film, no matter what happens there, is also not the end. There is a lot of money to make producing these films, superhero style piles of money. No film company is going to put a stop to this regardless what does or does not happen to the characters.

So for me there are problems, so many characters to fit in, even for a few minutes that it felt like appeasement to fans at times, the story rambling all over the place, with things that happened seemingly plotted to make the running time longer. Logic in the storyline goes out the window early on and then flies to the trees and stays there. It would be churlish to point out all the points that make little to no sense but once you give a single character the power to alter time, reality and all points in between you had better make your story is watertight otherwise it sinks in a sea of gooey contradictions really quickly. Avengers: Infinity War does this.

Having said this the film for most of the running time is entertaining and my attention did not wonder too much. The big battle scene in Wakanda, like the last one in Black Panther, lacked tension or thrills and bored me as it seemed to be interminable, the same with the big fight with Thanos, who was so powerful and able to control most of what was going on that it was easy to ask how was there ever fight in the first place? But I fully understand big flashy, non-stop noisy fighting scenes are what makes a Marvel world and it works for youngsters whose eyes and brains perhaps are tuned better than mine to this. I honestly find it boring if goes on beyond the actual endurance of real people.

Like all Marvel films the running time is too long, at least half an hour of bagginess and what on the surface seems exciting depth in character and motivation proves on proper examination to be slight and at times a bit silly. As an example Thanos’ motivation seems initially ‘wow I could see why he might do that’ then in the cold light of day it becomes ‘wait a minute…’ and this is the overall pervading feeling I had. Of course I’m aware I was watching a complete fantasy and just escapism but also the Marvel Comics have always been defended as more ‘adult than you think’ and covering ‘modern hard-hitting topics’. Well they skim the surface but they are just comic-book stories no matter what anyone might like them to be.

The acting throughout is good albeit with some people getting two minutes of screen time and at least Samuel L Jackson gets the best line in the whole film that made me laugh. The visual and special effects are better than usual with a feel of heft and reality to most heavy-laden scenes, which cannot always be said of a Marvel Universe film but any sense of peril or real danger, even at the very end of the film was just missing for me. These characters are expensive commodities and are laying some very big golden eggs. Everyone one of them will return in some form or another.

Usual Marvel fare, well produced, explosion infested and definitely slanted to fans but for me the same, it was okay, but I will not be going out of my way to watch it again.

An Epic film - Avengers: Infinity War review by GJ

Cinema had got to the stage where these kinds of stories can now be told . creatures of imagination now meld seamlessly with live action . Directors who can match the mundane with the fantastic . The performances are strong and the script seems more polished than usual and even the guardians of the galaxy seem likeable compared to their vol2 . Perhaps the film was too big in places and you do find yourself thinking 'oh yes, i forgot about them ' . however thankfully , each segment intergates back into the main story line

I liked the previous two Avengers movies but im finally impressed with this one.