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With all the money they ’re making from them , Disney wo n’t be stopping yield on Marvel movies any time presently . However , they did give us an termination of sorts withAvengers : Endgame . While there were plenty of sequels put up by the movie , it still felt like a satisfy series finish .
The 22 - motion picture spark that begin withIron Manand head up toEndgamehas been called “ The Infinity Saga . ” In the 11 - class yoke of these movies , the quality has been surprisingly consistent , butthere have been ups and down .
Best: The Avengers
The Avengerswas the first truly neat movie in the MCU . It was the first meter that hearing really got on circuit board with the idea of a shared universe of superhero movies . We ’d had a couple of middling solo movies that introduced Iron Man , Captain America , Thor , and the Hulk , butwhen Joss Whedon brought them all together for the first time , the MCU was born .
It ’s potential that in the years sinceThe Avengerscame out , there still has n’t been a more memorable shot in the MCU than the pan around the heroes during the Battle of New York . Every superhero movie should not only look but also feel likeThe Avengers . It ’s ne plus ultra , structurally and stylistically , bridge over the gap between the convention of cinema and the convention of comics .
Worst: Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2suffers from the same problem asBatman v Superman , in that it ’s too bogged down in dress up its own universe to be a good movie in its own rightfield . To be honest toIron valet de chambre 2 , it was the first movie to bind a cinematic universe together , so it was bind to be out of practice . BvShas no such excuse , sinceit shamelessly copy the MCUand did n’t even learn from its mistakes . Also , what was going on with Mickey Rourke ’s Whiplash ? He could n’t have been less necessary to the plot of ground .
The real villain ofIron Man 2wasn’t Whiplash or Justin Hammer ; it was the U.S. government , desperate to see Tony Stark after he bragged about privatize exemption . Focusing on this angle instead of universe apparatus and jampack in supervillains would ’ve made a far more interesting movie . At leastIron Man 3was original and unlike and in reality presented Tony with a challenge : redeem the solar day without the use of his Iron Man lawsuit ( and then with the use of loads ) .
Best: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The Russo brother ’ first contribution to the MCU was an exhilarating and visually delightful potpourri of all the government confederacy moving-picture show that flood the multiplex in the years postdate the Watergate scandal . But that ’s all on the Earth’s surface of an interesting case study ofSteve Rogers as a man out of his time in the advanced world .
The only job is that it stumbles into predictable territory in the third human action , with an all - too - intimate last fight . Still , as concluding battles go , it ’s pretty darn just , utilizing Cap ’s physical strengths perfectly and using his fight with Bucky asan excited kernel to keep that spectacle ground .
Worst: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Joss Whedon had his work sheer out for him when he had to espouse up his own MCU game - changerThe Avengers . It ’s not necessarily thatAge of Ultronis a bad movie ; it ’s just that it does n’t really take to be there . It ’s less of a moving-picture show on its own andmore of a bridge between various installments in the MCU . It ’s just caught in the middle , mimicking what worked before and then trail it down with tenacious stretches like the chronological succession at Hawkeye ’s house .
Ultron makes for a wonderful villain , yes . He ’s characterized as suitably creepy and James Spader play him as an formidable visionary , but the movie does n’t really do anything with him . In the final battle , he ’s underwhelmingly easy to get the better of .
Best: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Since MCU movies contend with lofty ideas like the fabric of reality andmagical mickle genocide , they seldom have an overarch emotional theme . However , Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2is fabulously emotionally resonating , with its focus on family . Peter Quill meets his biologic father and discovers he ’s an evil Celestial and that Yondu was his real dad the whole time , since he raise him and took fear of him and , in the end , made the ultimate forfeit for him .
Rocket accepts the other Guardians as the family he ’s chance , while Gamora and Nebula put their differences away and become real sis for the first time . Every action sequence in the movie expend antic constituent to develop these relationships in interesting ways . This is big - budget film - fashioning at its finest . Plus , obviously , it has a with child soundtrack .
Worst: Doctor Strange
Scott Derrickson’sDoctor Strangehas some impressive visuals , especially in its dazzlingInception - style twisting of cityscape . However , the movie is ultimately a disappointingly formulaic blood line tarradiddle , with aGroundhog Dayparody in lieu of a climactic action sequence . Plus , as not bad as Benedict Cumberbatch may be , his Stephen Strange is qualify as a 2d - pace Tony Stark .
The visual effects may be spectacular , but they act as an attractive racing shell around an empty , insubstantial narrative . Hopefully , in the forthcoming subsequence , Derrickson will be able-bodied to escape the housing of the origin tarradiddle andtake us to really trippy and surrealistic placeslike the more brainsick comics .
Best: Black Panther
You ca n’t faultBlack Panther . Ryan Coogler ’s slick , gumptious instruction breathe raw life into a well - worn pattern ( just like he did with theRockyformula inCreed ) and everyone in the cast of characters was grand , from Chadwick Boseman toy the form of address role toLetitia Wright as his genius sister Shuri .
Black Panthereven solvedthe MCU ’s villain problemwith Erik Killmonger , a menacing quality who was ultimately human and whose need we could understand ( portrayed brilliantly by Michael B. Jordan ) . It had an impeccable soundtrackwith contributions by Kendrick Lamar . It ’s no wonderit was nominated for Best Picture at this year ’s Oscars .
Worst: The Incredible Hulk
This one is deflower partly by the fact that it ’s an MCU movie star Edward Norton as Bruce Banner , when we ’ve all come to do it and loveMark Ruffalo ’s take on the fibre . Aside from that , though , it ’s just a pretty generic superhero movie . There ’s a duo of action set pieces , a shoehorned - in romantic subplot , and a big climactic showdown with the villain that tally a major city .
We can see all the story beats coming from a Admiralty mile aside , despite the ab initio intriguing apparatus of a self - exiled Banner live off the control grid . Unfortunately , it looks likeit’ll be the last Hulk movie we ’ll be watch for a while .
Best: Avengers: Endgame
Whether or notAvengers : Endgameis a unfeignedly great motion picture does n’t weigh , because it has morphed into something exclusively unlike . No moving picture has ever been expected to pay up off 22 movies before in the whole history of flick . It ’s the cinematic equivalent of a series finis and it ’s never been done before .
As a straggle story on an insanely epical scale , full of type moments , loose ends getting tied up , and scene we ’ve been wait to see for eld , Avengers : Endgameisan immensely gratify conclusionto “ The Infinity Saga . ” Sure , it ’s just three hour of giving the fans what they want , but what ’s so bad about that ? What ’s the option , giving them what they do n’t require ?
Worst: Thor: The Dark World
The expression “ third sentence lucky ” for certain practice to Thor ’s solo movies . Until Taika Watiti came along with the bonkersThor : Ragnarok , at last realise thatthe best way to describe Thor is by making him a comedy lineament , he was the most wearisome type in the MCU .
Kenneth Branagh ’s firstThormovie was very theatrical and Shakespearean , which fail to take hold of consultation . But it was Alan Taylor’sGame of Thrones - esque take onThor : The Dark Worldthat really took the patty . Plus , this moviegives Natalie Portman ’s Jane Foster her big purpose in the dealership , which end up being her final major show as devotee had finally had enough .
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