John Scalzi's take on Avengers: Endgame

[thewayne]

It's interesting, and no spoilers, though he isn't discouraging them in comments.

I'm going to copy one paragraph here, because it is what makes the review interesting:

"With that said, “watchable” and “entertaining in the moment” are not precisely the same thing to me as “fun” and “enjoyable.” Watching Endgame to me felt like being on a forced march through a checklist of plot points and character moments, and after a (very short) time I began to be rather conscious of all the scenes that existed not to be an organic moment of story but to be fanservice for a particular character (or set of characters), or to make sure some barely-remembered loose end was tucked in. By the third act and its climactic and overstuffed battle scene, it stopped being clever and started being exhausting. I felt like a kid on vacation being dragged to all the sights on a tour, with no time to really enjoy any of them because look, we’re on a schedule here."

Now, Scalzi was a professional film reviewer and is a professional award-winning writer, so he has a different perspective in to watching films, and everyone has different insights. I thought he has some interesting points, which I can agree with, but the fanboi in me is still sufficiently entertained that I will be seeing it again in the theater and buying the Bluray.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/05/05/review-avengers-endgame/

Comments

[silveradept]

That's an interesting take - it's good in the moments, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts.