[Editor’s note: I started to write this review after having watched Avengers: Endgame on May. I had to stop because of some important events in my life, but now I’ll start to work hard. 
I tried to watch Avengers: Endgame again and I didn’t change my mind about it. If you read my first article you can understand how disappointing it was to me. I must confess I call it “The movie that doesn’t exist”.]

 

[SPOILER ALERT: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS A LOT OF SPOILERS, SO DON’T READ IT IF YOU DIDN’T WATCH AVENGERS: ENDGAME]

[BUT IF YOU HADN’T SEEN IT YET… WELL, I THINK IS IMPOSSIBLE OR YOU WOULDN’T BE READING]

 

I know, I didn’t write anything here for a long time, and it seems that I only came back now to complain.
Actually, this doesn’t want to be a complaint but instead a critique or, even better, a surge. Because disappointment is really high. After having watched the movie, I was really, really angry: 21 movies and 11 years ruined by the ending.
I think of this movie as a huge marketing operation, that had nothing to do with cinematography.
180 minutes put together without following a straight line just to give an end to this story.
Why do I think that? I can motivate my thoughts point by point. According to me, there’s nothing right in this movie: story (full of mistakes), characters, ending (it seemed that Black Widow and Iron Man simply HAD to die, no matter what).

Let’s see my reasons point by point, starting by characters.

Hulk: he became Shrek. They removed from him all the funny and smart characteristics he always had.
Thor: really? Do I really have to explain why Thor wasn’t Thor in this movie? He was a caricature of himself, a ridiculous character with nothing to do with the God of lightning. Furthermore here the depression seems to be something to laugh about whereas it’s a serious disease.
Captain Marvel: she had to be the best hero, the strongest one, the savior of the world. Instead, we only see her in the whole movie for about 3 minutes: 1 minute in the beginning showing off and 2 minutes in the end to take a beating from Thanos. She didn’t really do anything.
Guardians of the Galaxy: uh, were they even in the movie? Oh, yes, sorry, I forgot Gamora. Can someone explain me why she can be brought back but Tony Stark or Black Widow can’t?
Hawkeye: a mad man that instead of trying to find Thanos who killed his family, starts killing a remaining (bad) part of humanity in the world. Why? No one explains it.
Black Widow: I’m still trying to understand her death. One of the many stretches in the movie.
Dr Strange: the most useless character in the movie. He only had to do one thing: save everyone thanks to his powers linked to time, but no… Iron Man had to die no matter what.
Captain America: the worst, really worst, character in the movie. The good one, the only one worthy to take Mjolnir over Thor, the one who always said he was ready to sacrifice himself… what he did in the end? Nothing. He chose to forget everything and go to enjoy his life with Peggy. Good work Captain.
Ant-Man: he came back from the Quantum World somehow. He came back, that’s all.
Iron Man: he is always the best.

Now let’s see what else was wrong in the movie.

1. The movie had no proper continuum, and I’m not talking about the time travel. People came, disappeared or changed randomly, with pretty much no context. It happened a lot, and it was all about compressing everything to avoid making any more movies.
2. The entire Black Widow’s death scene was awful. In Infinity War Red Skull said the soul stone requested a sacrifice and he used these exact words:
   “In order to take the stone, you must lose that which you love. A soul… for a soul.”
   When Gamora listened to this, she was happy because Thanos doesn’t love anyone and then she tried to kill herself trying to avoid the sacrifice to the stone. So the suicide of Black Widow has no sense. She kill herself, she wasn’t killed by someone that loved her.
3. Speaking about Gamora, as I said previously, why she can come back from a different timeline and the others Avengers (Iron Man, Black Widow, Vision…) can’t?
4. Can we speak about the final battle, the “Avengers Assemble” epic scene? In Infinity War ten heroes and Wakanda almost defeated Thanos with his stones. In Endgame twenty Avengers with an army four times bigger than that plus Captain Marvel couldn’t defeat Thanos with no stones at all? Where’s the sense in that?
5. Dealing with time travel can be hard, of course, but they created rules just to broke them: Some characters met themselves, they changed things in past which had no effect on present… everything is just sloppy.

I can add more reasons but I’m getting nervous again, so I’ll write the last one: the no sense Iron Man’s death.

It was clear that his death was just done to get Robert Downey Jr out of the franchise. I can’t believe that Dr. Strange knew the truth, saw the future and he couldn’t do anything to change it and I can’t believe that Tony Stark didn’t make a suit that would have protected him from the power of the Infinity Gauntlet. I’m pretty sure that Tony Stark would have done it, but the script says something different because he had to die, the actor’s contract was ended, they couldn’t make another movie so “let’s make anything even remotely plausible up to get rid of him.” Seriously, it was the worst character ending of all time and I expected a lot more from Marvel.

Those were the worst 180 minutes of my cinematography life.