And it just so happens that our Avengers are the only thing standing in his way. Not satisfied with culling his own planet, Thanos has continued on a mission to eliminate half the life in the universe, and needs the Infinity Stones to do so. To alleviate the stress on the planet, Thanos had the idea to reduce it by half, eliminating life in order to preserve it. We’re told that, ages ago, Thanos’s home planet was bountiful but resources were finite. The special effects needed to turn Brolin into Thanos distract in the villain’s softer moments, as when he explains how exactly he came to be the Mad Titan. The Russo brothers’ solution to this dilemma is to turn a movie nominally about the Avengers into a movie about Thanos, played by Brolin decked out in lumpy mounds of purple CGI. That intricate web of characters and motivations barely scratches the surface of four of Marvel’s recent movies there are 18 total, not including Infinity War. Gamora, Drax, and the other Guardians aren’t technically Avengers, but that’s just because they operate in Marvel’s cosmic universe, which we found out in Thor: Ragnarok is connected to Thor’s Asgard, a recently destroyed world populated by Norse gods and goddesses. Gamora and Nebula hate each other and hate Thanos, who tortured them by pitting them against each other he also killed the family of Gamora’s Guardians of the Galaxy teammate Drax ( Dave Bautista).
The most difficult task facing Infinity War is addressing all of the characters, motivations, subplots, and relationships that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has built up over the years without making it feel like an expository avalanche careening down a mountain to bury the audience below.įor example: Gamora ( Zoe Saldana) and Nebula ( Karen Gillan) are adopted daughters of Thanos, the villain of Infinity War and the big bad lurking in the shadows of Marvel’s movies since 2012’s Avengers. Infinity War is more of a Thanos movie than an Avengers movie Captain America in Avengers: Infinity War. What I didn’t fully realize is just what that chaos would look like, and that Marvel had the guts to, mostly, pull it off. For the past six years, we’ve been told that he’s on a collision course with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, setting us up for the chaos that ensues in this long-heralded culmination. It’s a testament to Marvel and the Russos’ daring that Thanos is actually one of the less surprising things about Infinity War. Instead, it dares to ask what happens if saving the day means taking real, tangible losses - a concept so foreign that it comes in the form of an intergalactic purple titan named Thanos ( Josh Brolin). Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-markĭirected by the Russo brothers, the architects behind Captain America: Civil War and Captain America: Winter Soldier, Infinity War slyly betrays Cap, presenting his and the Avengers’ worldviews as naive and privileged. “We don’t trade lives,” Captain America ( Chris Evans) tells his compatriots in Avengers: Infinity War, essentially summing up Marvel’s ethos over the past 18 movies: Leave no men, women, children, or any other life form behind. You don’t have to squint too hard to see that all these villains and their endgames (take control of the planet and/or the universe), as well as our heroes’ efforts to stop them, have started to look essentially the same. Throughout Marvel Studios’ 10-year cinematic history, we’ve seen the world saved multiple times, from threats ranging from a chunk of Earth poised to crash down and wipe us out like the dinosaurs in Avengers: Age of Ultron to the unkillable goddess of death in Thor: Ragnarok. And it’s all the more confounding for how closely it mirrors its decade of movie predecessors only to end up shattering that mirror: Infinity War moves, sounds, and acts like a typical Marvel movie, but then unmasks itself as a creature distinctly its own. Trying to describe any part of it alone will make you sound like you’ve lost your mind trying to describe it all kind of makes it sound like it’s lost its mind. Avengers: Infinity W ar feels like a Marvel movie on bath salts.
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