Đánh giá avengers infinity war

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The most definitive sầu overarching issue with the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been the lack of stakes. Over the course of the saga’s previous 18 movies, MCU heroes have faced numerous world-ending threats, eking out victories by the skin of their teeth, only to have their worlds essentially return lớn normal in time for the next installment. The approach worked early, on a film-by-film basis, but when viewed as part of a 10-year narrative, it’s tended to lớn weaken the broader franchise. There can be no drama without true risk, và in the MCU, audiences have learned that none of their favorites are ever really in harm’s way.

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Directors Joe and Anthony Russo seem acutely aware of this issue with their lademo entry, the massive, multi-film team-up Avengers: Infinity War. The long-awaited face-off between the Avengers và Thanos (Josh Brolin), the MCU’s ultimate big bad, is massively entertaining, deftly incorporating dozens of characters across multiple storylines with a kinetic flair. Its devotion lớn banter and one-liners makes it one of the funniest movies in the studio’s history, but it’s also a film where very bad things happen to good people. After years of movies where even the most mediocre heroes appeared to lớn be invulnerable và indomitable, it’s an arresting jolt — and exactly the film the franchise needed.


After years of teasing Thanos’ upcoming arrival, Avengers: Infinity War wastes no time with stage-setting. It opens with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) & Loki (Tom Hiddleston) on the ship last seen at the over of Thor: Ragnarok, facing off against the big purple villain. Thanos is after a powerful crystal called an Infinity Stone, and he suspects Loki has one in the Tesseract — the glowing cube that served as a key plot device six years ago in The Avengers.

There are six Infinity Stones, the film explains: powerful crystals that originated in the Big Bang, & that represent aspects of existence and have related elemental powers. Some are spread across the universe, but half of them are on Earth, where they’ve played significant roles in past MCU movies. Thanos is trying to collect all of them, slotting them inkhổng lồ a massive sầu golden glove. If he acquires them all, he says, he’ll have the power to wipe out half the universe with a snap of his fingers.


The film tracks Thanos’ quest as he moves from stone lớn stone, while various superanh hùng factions attempt lớn stop him. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Spider-Man (Tom Holland), & Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) are attacked by several of Thanos’ henchman, who are eager to lớn get the green Time Stone that Strange protects within the mystic Eye of Agamotlớn. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) và Vision (Paul Bettany), who have sầu gone inlớn hiding to nurture their burgeoning thắm thiết relationship, are attacked by minions seeking the Mind Stone that’s integrated within Vision’s brain. Along the way, the Guardians of the Galaxy team up with various heroes, a bearded Captain America (Chris Evans) comes out of hiding, và Blaông xã Panther’s trang chính of Wakanda becomes ground zero for a central conflict. Nearly every character in the MCU is roped into lớn the war, with Thanos swiftly establishing himself as an unprecedented threat on multiple fronts.

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Photo: Marvel Studquả táo With so many characters in play, writers Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (Captain America: Civil War) are faced with a remarkable challenge: giving every character a place in the story, without letting anyone other than Thanos dominate the larger narrative sầu. The story crosscuts between four or five sầu major story threads, much lượt thích Game of Thrones, Westworld, and other complicated serial narratives. It’s a testament khổng lồ Markus & McFeely’s work that the film never feels crowded, even though it’s juggling such a massive number of movie stars. In fact, the film is able khổng lồ give many characters their own meaningful story arcs throughout the film, with Tony Stark, Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), và the Vision / Scarlet Witch love story given particular focus. The result is a film that often feels surprisingly earnest and emotional. It pays off the emotional investment movie audiences have sầu been making in these characters for years, sometimes in genuinely heart-wrenching ways.


Even with all of that, this film belongs lớn Josh Brolin’s Thanos. The prospect of a giant purple computer-generated bad guy has prompted some skepticism, but in context, the character is wonderfully effective sầu. The visual effects undeniably capture the nuances of Brolin’s facial tics and mannerisms, allowing the actor to lớn shine through all the CGI wizardry. It’s a good thing that it works so well, because Thanos is not the cardboard cutout villain that some previous Marvel bad guys have been. His master plan involves destroying half the universe, but in his own mind, his motivations are noble. He thinks he’s the hero of his story, và while nobody is going to agree with his tactics, his backstory does give sầu his overall reasoning a perverse sort of ngắn gọn xúc tích. At several key moments in the film, Thanos nearly becomes a sympathetic character — even while he is doing truly horrific, unforgivable things. The biggest surprise of all may be that the most outlandish-looking Marvel villain is also its most complex and layered one, which simply wouldn’t be possible without the film’s synthesis of script, direction, performance, and visual effects.

The film’s sparkling sense of humor balances the weight of Thanos’ actions. Marvel’s films have always had a flair for comedy, but Infinity War turns the dial up further, maximizing the levity found in movies like Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy. Pitting Star-Lord’s hyper-insecurity against Thor’s arrogant hyper-masculinity provides for some of the funniest moments in the entire MCU.

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Doctor Strange & Tony Stark also play as comedic foils for each other, sparring over what might as well be the title for Most Arrogant Supernhân vật On Earth. In a film that mixes so many different elements, it would be easy for many of these characters’ essential traits to fall by the wayside. But the Russo brothers don’t just preserve sầu the characters’ innate sensibility. They’re actually able to lớn incorporate the filmmaking sensibilities of the different franchises inkhổng lồ their own tapestry. Sequences with Star-Lord, Rocket (Bradley Cooper), và Groot (Vin Diesel) feel like they’re from one of James Gunn’s Guardians films; Thor seems like he’s walked right off the phối of Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok. The movie is a Marvel mixtape, combining the very best of everything that’s come before, but recontextualizing the individual parts to tell its own chất lượng story.

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Photo: Marvel Studtiện ích ios The massive sầu scale of the undertaking does have sầu periodic downsides. The action sequences are mostly effective, but at times, there are so many characters being flung around like CG rag dolls that it can be hard to gauge what is happening to lớn whom, in which order. And while every character does get a laugh, a heroic choice, or some other moment khổng lồ shine, fans will no doubt be frustrated if their particular favorite hero isn’t foregrounded as much as other characters are. That’s simply the nature of the beast, however — it was inevitably going lớn happen with a project of this kích cỡ. The fact that those concerns are fleeting, however, is a testament to what a massive sầu storytelling achievement Infinity War is.


The film can’t spread around its camera time in equal measure, but it does give sầu all the characters an equal shot at despair. A decade of films have led up lớn Thanos, and Avengers: Infinity War delivers on that threat with a film that upends the entire fabric of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. No character is safe from the far-reaching implications of his actions, and it’s impressive khổng lồ see just how dark Marvel is willing lớn go for this story. Even the biggest tín đồ favorites are truly vulnerable, & the movie reinforces that idea — relentlessly, at times — as it sprints toward its final stunning moments. By the time the credits roll, audiences will no doubt be aghast at just how far the Avengers have sầu fallen.

One problem, though, is that Infinity War leans so excessively toward darkness that it’s impossible to lớn believe sầu the studio won’t take bachồng many of the things that happen onscreen. This is still the Disney-run Marvel universe, after all, and the popularity of some of its flagship characters all but guarantees that, no matter what happens during Avengers: Infinity War, much of it won’t be permanent. (In fact, in its final act, the film seems to lớn tip its hvà toward a Hail Mary solution that’s likely lớn come inlớn play in the still-untitled Infinity War sequel.) But that’s the most minor of complaints. This is a comic book universe, after all, và the fact that Infinity War is able to embrace this darkness in the first place is a wonder. The only real crime is that audiences will have sầu to lớn wait until 2019 to lớn see the conclusion.

Avengers: Infinity War opens on April 27th.


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