By The Collectress

I have done my best to keep this spoiler-free (and it wasn’t easy, believe me), and will tag any potential spoilers with**. 

I don’t really know what to say about this film, the closing act of a story arc that has captivated us for eleven years. In 2008, before Disney bought Marvel, before superhero swag was omnipresent in stores, before most of us knew what a “Mjolnir” was, Marvel took a risk, and produced its first self-financed film: Ironman. 

11 years and 21 films later, the same studio, now backed by Disney, has brought us the finale to the story that began with just Tony Stark in a cave, a bucket of tools, and an idea.

Iron Man (2008)
Robert Downey Jr

Last year, when I wrote my review of ‘Infinity War’, I wondered if the payoff in the fourth Avengers movie would be worth the wait. I also described Infinity War as ‘the most ambitious superhero movie ever made’, and, well, if Infinity War was ten years of ambition, Endgame is the culmination of that ambition.

civil-war

Although I will do my best to keep this a spoiler free review, some important scenes will be discussed and will be marked with **.  

The third installment of the Captain America franchise is, arguably, the most anticipated film of the year and has been heralded as the superhero film that will change the landscape of a cinematic world littered with men in spandex. But does the film live up to the intense hype surrounding it?