So it’s finally here, and it’s goddamned enormous. Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel’s attempt to put an exploding bow on 10 years of corporate synergy, is a lurching, ungainly colossus of a blockbuster, with far too many characters and storylines stretching across a series of planets that resemble 1970s prog-rock album covers. The thing is, though, while you’re watching it? None of these elements feel like debits. Sometimes, excess hits the spot.
Picking up roughly where Thor: Ragnarok left off, the plot finds bad guy Thanos (a surprisingly nuanced Josh Brolin) assembling a weapon that will wipe out half of the galaxy’s population, and it’s up to every hero in the universe (except Hawkeye) to stop him. No more details will be given, other to say that fans of Dr. Strange and the latest Spider-Man will be very happy, and that Dave Bautista’s turn as Drax the Destroyer continues to be a thing of beauty.