Overall I liked Endgame, but many of the 'problems' it had stemmed from the sheer volume of main characters.
This is exactly the end I was hoping for Cap. A well deserved, normal life.
This is one of the aspects I liked.
Most of the characters got a lot of development (even if it was to end them off). Black Widow's wrap up was the weakest but part of that was what here character was, a lone spy reluctant to trust who finally finds a family and sacrifices herself for... the whole fight at the end with Hawkeye was a bit over-done but it played on their original friendship.
I also really liked seeing Tony Stark as a dad, and to a daughter. The whole meeting his father was a bit over-done too but tied up that relationship too quite well. The whole Pepper in a suit thing was something obvioulsy coming from the beginning, but it seemed like more of a plot device so she could be there for Tony's last moments.
Fat Thor was great as it was a way to compartmentalize dealing with the single most devastating tragedy to have occurred in history. The 'Fat Thor' played that out well.
Smart Hulk to me was ok... more like a natural end point where there is finally some Banner/Hulk balance.
Favorite line? Hail Hydra.
I love the fact that the elevator scene was the same set up as the elevator fight scene in "Captain America: Winter Soldier"
If some three billion people just reappear, where are the news about it?
While it would be big news, you'd have to be the biggest hermit in the universe to not know 'the snap' was undone.
Hawkeye’s family is totally gone with the snap. Tony Stark’s family remains in full. Luck? Or just convenience?
Luck of the draw. But to your point of the randomness, I really wished that they explored the fact that Thanos knew he was also putting his life on a 50/50 chance on 'the snap'.
Ok now for some time travel talk (quotes out of order):
(start at the 30 second mark)
And why five years in the future? And so little happened in five years? The world just mourned everybody who disappeared?
I think 5 years was a convenient spot as the characters who didn't 'snap out' wouldn't have aged much. Also loosing 3.5billion people means there'd probably be a lot of cleanup and a fair bit of chaos post-snap. They kind of hint at this as Ant-Man goes to see his daughter, dirty streets, car up on blocks with wheels removed, abandoned houses... that kind of thing.
What really bothers me about the plot is that the whole movie takes place five years after the events in Infinity War. And, although there is time travel, the events are not undone.
They actually reference the time line continuity several different times they choose to bring back the people at that particular point as to preserve their current timeline.
But....
My only issues with the movie are the lapses in time travel theory. They were so careful to put the stones back where/when they came from, but Thanos and his entire army traveled into the future and died there? He died before he ever snapped his fingers in Infinity War. How does that resolve?
Yeah this is where I would go crosseyed... but when Tony does the second snap and Thanos and his underlings disappear I think (for the time lines sake) that they instead of being snapped out of existence would be returned to the past with no knowledge of the future. ... I admit that's a big leap to take.
All in all very enjoyable to watch, might have made me misty... but I'm going to blame that on allergies.
