This movie has a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
I don’t think that’s high enough.
While the majority of critics gave the film a general thumbs up, many still felt a need to fault it. The Critics who gave it less than a perfect score have betrayed themselves as hacks, unable to really see what they were seeing.
I still remember the experience of watching the original three Star Wars movies in the theater. Each was magic. Many of the early Stephen Spielberg movies were like that, too. And then, years later, we had the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
It becomes harder and harder to make cinematic history. But what End Game pulled off wasn’t just history. It was a cinematic miracle.
Over the course of a decade, twenty-one films in eleven franchises introduced the MCU’s characters and themes, building like the movements of a symphony—exposition, development, recapitulation—melodies intertwining, some boisterous and thundering, some soft and dulcet, progressing slowly, patiently, and now, only now, finally culminating in this rollicking finale, this rhapsodic masterpiece, in which homage is paid to all themes going back to the beginning, and all the outstanding threads are triumphantly resolved.
Just… WOW!
People alive today who experience this film in the theaters will remember it for the rest of their lives. Future generations will appreciate the movie in their way, but they won’t be able to fully understand that experience.
I just saw the movie Oblivion. The critics didn’t love it. It only received a 53% rating from Rotten Tomatoes. But the critics are big dumb poopy heads and they’re flat out wrong.
And the directing and writing are good, too. The story is compelling, and the story-telling is done right. Tight, efficient script. No clunky exposition, but by the end you fully understand everything you need to know about the backstory. The action stems organically from the characters pursuing their goals rather than being tacked on artificially.