Friday, May 03, 2019

Avengers: Endgame

For me, Endgame stuck the landing. The culmination of a 22-film run, most of which I've seen (many recently), it does everything it could reasonably have been expected to, moving through its two and a half hours with clean lines and a neat structure which succeeds in making its resolutions to many of its major characters' arcs feel natural and satisfying.

I guess this series, or franchise, must be unique in the history of cinema in terms of the way its films have fit together (as opposed to the Bond series, with its single through-line of its main character, or the Star Wars films, which seem to have developed with a more linear spine accompanied by tangential proliferations). Moment to moment, too, it continues to be enjoyable.