Avengers: Endgame review (Spoilers!)

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Avengers: Endgame
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The follow-up film to Infinity War, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe storyline. A complicated film. So, where to begin? At the beginning, where Hawkeye is teaching his daughter how to use a bow. His anguish as Thanos' Snap takes place is very well realised. The film proper picks up three weeks after the Snap, with Danvers rescuing Stark and Nebula from being stranded in space and bringing them back to Earth. The ensuing scenes as they try to track down Thanos to undo the Snap, were done very well.
However, there is failure there also. Not saying how, but that was written very well, with all the characters acting as you would expect them to. Then there is another (much longer) time jump, during which the various Avengers go their separate ways. Then Scott Lang emerges from the Quantum Realm (continuing from the Ant-Man and the Wasp mid credit scene), and suggests a solution to the Avengers. A method of time travel. The way they go about this (and brainstorm), in planning to retrieve the infinity stones was depicted in a very good way.
2012. Retrieving the Mind, Time and Space Stones during the Battle of New York. Mind, Captain America retrieves the Mind stone by pretending to be a HYDRA agent. The improvisation there was well depicted. However, Time. The discussion between Banner and the Ancient One was one of the best parts of the film, and sets up a scene later on in the film. (More on that below.) Space. Failure. The 2012 version of Loki escapes with the Tesseract, instead of going to Asgard. (That would be an interesting alternate timeline).
1970. The Tesseract and additional Pym Particles from the SHIELD base in New Jersey. The scene between Tony and his father was rather good, and helps resolve his character. (Especially given what happens, See below.) 2013. Retrieving the Reality Stone from Asgard. This part was good also, especially the scenes between Thor and Frigga. 2014. Retrieving the Soul and Power stones. The scenes on Vormir were rather moving, especially given what happens to Black Widow (and some well depicted anguish on Hawkeye's part.
Power. The past version of Thanos gets involved, leading to the final battle sequence. A bit surprising how this happened, but it was a great twist. Hulk Un-Snap! Then those who came back helping defeat Past!Thanos, that was rather good! However, the final Snap (with Stark!) is very moving and a great call back to his first film. The ending with Captain America after he returns the Infinity Stones to their realities was a bit confusing though. 9.25/10.