Movie: Avengers – End Game
Krishna
The story starts with the aftermath of the Avengers – Infinity War, which is neat. We know that in the original Avengers we have half the world population was destroyed. We did not see all the implications of it. Some of those form the beginning of this movie. Hawkeye is having a picnic with his family, and what is cute, training his daughter in archery, when his family suddenly vanishes. He is completely nonplussed as he does not understand why and how it happened.
Iron Man is stranded in space and is brought back by Captain Marvel (yes, she has joined the Avengers team now that she is in Marvel Cinematic Universe as it has become known). The remaining Avengers get together and decide on only the safe plan – get the stones back from Thanos and reverse the damage done. They know where he has retired to. But before they can go there they find another huge energy pulse from there and when they reach there, learn that Thanos, just to prevent this from happening, has destroyed the stones using the stones themselves, thereby making it impossible to reverse what he has achieved. Fool proof plan, right? Or is it?
Ant Man, who was absent in the quantum realm – I would not even go to the science of quantum to discuss how absurd that concept is – and comes back to find that his family has also been wiped out in the half of the world deal of Thanos. Now he has a motive to join and save everyone.
This is when, in a supposedly ingenious twist, the remaining Avengers hit upon the idea. If they can travel back in time – through the Quantum Realm, right? – and get the stones before Thanos even got them, then it would be possible to change the course of history and ensure that none of the events thereafter never happened. Not Elementary, my dear Watson. But an interesting cinematic idea.
They go for help to Iron Man, who has retired and lives with Pepper Potts and a daughter they now have and he sends them away as he now does not want to endanger his own or his family’s life. But the loss of Spiderman preys on his mind and he finally agrees to help, with the tacit approval of Pepper.
Thor has become a massive fat hulk and a hobo, drinking, eating and caring nothing for life or Avengers, overcome by guilt of not killing Thanos in Wakanda (yes, in the first picture). Then follows a complicated story of how they split up, try to take each stone before Thanos gets them, what goes spectacularly wrong and how it all ends. I cannot say much about that without giving everything away. But I will say this.
Thanos has been made aware of the plan by encountering the ‘future’ Nebula who has traveled to the past and scanning her brain. This makes the contest totally uneven. And every way they face hurdles, winning some stones but not others and at the end spectacularly losing all the stones together. Nice story-line.
What rails me and puzzles me is the ‘handing over the weapon’ – at least suggested – of one of the major Avengers character. Is there going to be a change in the character as suggested? We should wait for the next Avenger in the series to find out. What also does not make any sense is the ‘end’ of one other major character, who survived the last apocalypse. What are they suggesting there?
With the complex plot, the cast of characters which has widened to several dozens and sometimes two of them to boot, this can seem an overly complex story and certainly, if you are uninitiated in the Marvel Universe from the beginning, you will certainly get lost.
There is a lot to appreciate in this movie but there are some major confusing twists. For an average man who is familiar with the Marvel set but not immersed in it, I guess this will qualify as a 7/10
– – Krishna