I am sort of sorry that the rares time I write a review, it is not a kind one. But I am sorrier still that the rares times I watch theater movies, it is because of high ratings of previous reviewers.

Yep, that is how i chose this one.

"Astonishing", "perfect", "masterpiece", "9 out of 10" were some of the comments and ratings around, so I thought, this must be it, if I have to see one movie this year, it's this one.

But honestly :

Special effects, are good.

Plot is so plain you understand what is going to happen and how it is going to end in the first ten minutes. And there are no twists whatsoever. Everything is pretty much recycled from other movies - not talking about "avengers" or marvel series; rather, just any SF movies out there were used as ideas sources to fill this one. Nothing new, nothing different.

Yeah, there are a few nice jokes, and some fat, both so badly plugged you can see the stitching (you'll understand when you see it). In the past, when heroes were making jokes during a battle, it was to show they mastered the situation, and it was fitting the atmosphere and pace; in this one, you can see at some point the director absolutely wanted to put a joke in the middle of the main battle - broke the rythm and half spoiled the mood just because of that.

Movie is three hours long.

I just watched two episodes of an old anime series from the 80's, and in those 46 minutes, there was pretty much as much action and stuff going on than in these almost-three-hours of medium paced show. So although people say it was needed to fit all the references to previous marvel movies, i'd rather have less references and more things happening in this one.

As it often happens in these follow-ups, previous movies created such an intricate situation that this one solved in such a straight-forward way, it felt as if somebody wanted it rushed to the finish.

And in order to do that, it took the party of a lousy quantum physics theory (which is actually wrong, btw), and left some important side question unanswered

And not to talk about the mania from the producers to destroy stuff that went on for décades, or millennia, all in the timespan of a few years! We had ragnarok, the death of Odin.. And now.. this? Well without spoiling the movie for those that want to see it, I'd say it looked like they wanted to make sure that this put an end to the story. Even if that meant to break the logic of these movies : "Thus far and no further we shall make avengers movies" God complex, perhaps?

All in all, it wasn't any better than an old Flash Gordon movie, except for the SFX that are of course more modern. I'm giving it a 3 out of 10, as 1 and 2 are reserved for movies that don't deserve watching till the end. But I believe that once the paid comments and the avengers mania will be past, many other will downrate this, that definitely did not deserve all that advertising and praise it received so far.

Definitely a cash movie, nothing more.