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Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Jeremy Renner’s
Hawkeye and Don Cheadle’s War Machine.
Faced with retrieving the Infinity Stones, the
team must go back in time to alter the future.
As you might expect, this is a movie full of
action and stunning special effects. But it’s also
a character study, with screenwriters Christopher
Markus and Stephen McFeely – working with
the directors, brothers Anthony and Joe Russo
- cleverly imbuing the film not just with
nostalgia, but a great sense of personal
anguish, urgency and, in many cases, humour.
If you have tracked the intrepid Marvel
characters’ adventures over the years, Endgame
Following on from Avengers: Infinity War,
this film may sound like the end of the road
for the Marvel heroes we’ve come to know
and love, but there’s still hope that it isn’t.
Avengers: Endgame is a satisfying return
that sees Josh Brolin’s Thanos holding the
world to ransom with his six Infinity Stones.
Pitted against him are the Avengers in their
various guises, including Iron Man’s Tony
Stark (Robert Downey Jr), Captain America
(Chris Evans), Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), Captain
Marvel (Brie Larsen) and a decidedly unfit
Thor (Chris Hemsworth). Plus let’s not
forget Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow,
- the second-highest grossing movie of all
time, with a global box office of more than
US$2.7 billion – is an unmissable experience
that brings them together once more to
explore themes of sacrifice and heroism.
All the performances are top-rate –
what a cast the franchise has been able
to assemble over the years. We should
probably expect nothing less, but they bring
conviction to their roles, regardless of their
seeming otherness. Quite a feat.
There is little to resist in this instalment
from the Marvel universe. Embrace it.
- Margaret Pomeranz
AVENGERS: ENDGAME (M)
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