#AVENGERS INFINITY WAR MOVIE MOMENT SERIES#
Not only does “Avengers: Infinity War” presume that viewers have seen all the preceding films in the Marvel series but, worse, it presumes that they’ve thought about them afterward.Īnd for those who haven’t, there’s always streaming: “Avengers: Infinity War” may be the first movie that functions as a full-length ad for the binge-watching of a virtual series, whose episodes, having been released one by one in theatres over the course of many years, are now simultaneously and instantly available to be streamed. Its characters aren’t introduced they just show up, and their behavior is entirely defined by the template set for them in other movies. “Avengers: Infinity War” would make little sense in the absence of its pack of predecessors. It comes off not even as a single drama, as a self-contained and internally structured narrative, but, rather, as a big-screen, two-and-a-half-hour variant on a single episode in a television series.
In the well-worn divide between plot-driven dramas and character-driven ones, “Avengers: Infinity War” falls strangely and surprisingly into the latter category.įor that matter, although there’s nothing small scale about “Avengers: Infinity War,” it only resembles a movie. Yet its roiling action is beside the point, serving mainly to illustrate the movie’s main idea: to give each one of its dozens of characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe a few moments to shine. It runs for two and a half hours, and its spectacular action, effects, histrionics, and noises fill big screens and cavernous theatres with their colossal churning and yowling. “Avengers: Infinity War” is a very peculiar movie.
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