Avengers: Infinity War Review

Avengers: Infinity War

Release Date: 25th April 2018 - Australia

Production Companies

Marvel Studios

Distribution

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Australia

Genre: Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 149 minutes

Budget: $400,000,000

Box Office Gross: $2,048,359,754 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

The quest begins for Thanos, an intergalactic warlord, as he ventures to the cosmos to search for the Infinity Stones that will give him the power to eradicate half of the universe. Now it's up to the Avengers, with Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Black Panther and the Guardians of the Galaxy, to risk everything to stop the invincible Mad Titan before he collects all the stones and carries out his insane plan.

Cast

Chris Evans - Steve Rogers/

Captain America

Robert Downey, Jr. - Tony Stark/Iron Man
Mark Ruffalo - Bruce Banner/
Hulk
Chris Hemsworth - Thor

Chris Pratt - Peter Quill/

Star-Lord

Josh Brolin - Thanos

Scarlett Johansson - Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

Don Cheadle - Lt. James

Rhodes/War Machine

Benedict Cumberbatch - Doctor Strange

Tom Holland - Peter Parker/

Spider-Man

Chadwick Boseman - T'Challa/Black Panther

Benedict Wong - Wong

Zoe Saldana - Gamora
Karen Gillan - Nebula
Tom Hiddleston - Loki

Paul Bettany - Vision

Elizabeth Olsen - Wanda

Maximoff/Scarlet Witch

Anthony Mackie - Sam Wilson/The Falcon

Sebastian Stan - Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier

Idris Elba - Heimdall
Danai Gurira - Okoye
Vin Diesel - Groot (Voice)

Bradley Cooper - Rocket Raccoon (Voice)
Gwyneth Paltrow - Pepper Potts

Dave Bastille - Drax the Destroyer

Pom Klementieff - Mantis

Peter Dinklage - Eitri

Benicio del Toro - The Collector

William Hurt - Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross

Letitia Wright - Shuri

Sean Gunn - On-Set Rocket

Terry Notary - Cull Obsidian/

On-Set Groot

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor - Ebony Maw

Carrie Coon - Proxima Midnight

Michael James Shaw - Corvus Glaive

Winston Duke - M'Baku

Florence Kasumba - Ayo

Kerry Condon - F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Voice)

Monique Ganderton - On-Set Proxima Midnight

Jacob Batalon - Ned (Cameo)

Tiffany Espensen - Cindy

Isabella Amara - Sally

Ethan Dizon - Tiny

Ariana Greenblatt - Young Gamora

Ameenah Kaplan - Gamora's Mother

Ross Marquand - Red Skull

(Stonekeeper)

Stan Lee - Bus Driver (Cameo)

Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury (Cameo) (Uncredited)

Cobie Smulders - Maria (Cameo) (Uncredited)

Crew

Directors - Anthony & Joe Russo

Based on the Marvel Comics/Groot Creator/

Executive Producer - Stan Lee

Based on the Marvel Comics/Captain America

and Groot Creator - Jack Kirby

Star-Lord/Mantis Creator - Steve Englehart

Star-Lord Creator - Steve Gan

Gamora, Thanos and Drax Creator - Jim Starlin

Groot Creator - Larry Lieber

Rocket Raccoon Creators - Bill Mantlo and

Keith Giffen

Mantis Creator - Don Heck

Captain America Creator - Joe Simon

Screenplay - Christopher Markus and

Stephen McFeely

Associate Producer/Senior Visual Effects

Producer - Jen Underdahl

Associate Producer/Unit Production Manager -

JoAnn Perritano

Executive Producers - Louis D'Esposito,

Jon Favreau, Michael Grillo, James Gunn

and Trinh Tran

Producer - Kevin Feige

Co-Producer - Mitchell Bell

Casting Director - Sarah Finn

Production Designer - Charles Wood

Concept Artists - Bob Cheshire,

Sean Hargreaves, Andrew Redder.

Paul Catling, Paul Chandler,

Roberto Fernandez Castro, Tim Hill,

Chris Kesler, Oliver Pron, Pete Thompson

and Ivan Weightman

Head of Visual Development - Ryan Meinerding

Visual Development Concept Illustrators -

Anthony Francisco, Rodney Fuentebella,

Ian Joyner, Alexander Mandradjiev,

Jerad Marantz, Fausto De Martini,

Josh Nizzi, Andy Park, Phil Saunders,

Constantine Sekeris, Tully Summers,

Justin Sweet and Jackson Sze

Supervising Art Director - Ray Chan

Art Directors - Julian Ashby,

Thomas Brown, Jordan Crockett,

Jann K. Engel, Beat Frutiger,

Kevin Houlihan, Chris 'Flimsy' Howes,

David Scott, Mike Stallion and Brian Stultz

Set Decorator - Leslie Pope

Property Master - Russell Bobbitt

Costume Designer - Judianna Makovsky

Hair Stylist: Ms Saldana - Peter Tothpal

Makeup Department Head - John Blake

Department Head: Prosthetics Makeup,

Legacy Effects - Brian Sipe

Makeup Effects Consultant: Vision - Mike Elizalde

Director of Photography - Trent Opaloch

Director of Photography: Additional

Photography - Paul Hughen

"A" Camera Operator: Second Unit/

Edge Director of Photography - Ronald Hersey

First Assistant Camera: "A" Camera - Taylor Matheson

"B" Camera: 2nd Unit, Edinburgh - David Worley

Production Supervisor - Jason Tamez

Supervising Location Manager - James Lin

Location Managers: UK/Scotland -

Duncan Bradfoot, Lindsey Powell,

Aurelia Thomas and Naomi Liston (Uncredited)

First Assistant Director - Chris Castaldi

First Assistant Director: Second Unit - David Sardi

Second Assistant Directors - Jeff Okabayashi

and Matt Haggerty

Second Unit Director/Director of Photography:

Second Unit - Alexander Witt

Additional Second Unit Director/Fight (Uncredited)/

Stunt Coordinator - Sam Hargrave

Aerial Coordinator/Pilot - Cliff Fleming

Stunt Coordinator - Vic Armstrong

Stunt Coordinator: New York Unit - Stephen A. Pope

Fight Coordinator/Stunt Double (Uncredited) -

James Young

Fight Coordinator - Daniel Hernandez

Motion Capture/Movement Choreographer -

Terry Notary

Picture Car Coordinator - Dennis McCarthy

Special Effects Supervisor - Daniel Sudick

Legacy Effects Supervisors - Lindsay MacGowan

and Shane Mahan

Senior Visual Effects Supervisor: Weta Digital -

Joe Letteri

Visual Effects Supervisor - Dan DeLeeuw

Visual Effects Supervisor: Digital Domain -

Kelly Port

Visual Effects Supervisors: Weta Digital -

Matt Aitken and Charlie Tait

Visual Effects Supervisors: ILM - Russell Earl,

Jeff Caprogeco and Dan Snape

Visual Effects Supervisor: Method Studios -

Greg Steele

Visual Effects Supervisor: Cinesite - Andrew Morley

Visual Effects Supervisor: Framestore - Patric Roos

Visual Effects Supervisor: Cantina Creative -

Stephen Lawes

Visual Effects Supervisor: Additional - Swen Gillberg

Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM -

Robert Weaver

Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: Cinesite -

Aleksandar Pejic

Additional Visual Effects Supervisor: Second

Unit - Mark O. Forker

Senior Visual Effects Producer: Double

Negative - Melinka Thompson-Godoy

Visual Effects Producer - Lisa Marra

Visual Effects Producers: ILM - Katherine Farrar

Danielle Legovich and Cabral Rock

Executive VFX Producer: RISE Visual Effects

Studios - Florian Gellinger

DFX Supervisor: Digital Domain - Scott Edelstein

Animation Supervisors: ILM - Kevin Martel,

Shawn Kelly, Eric Leong and Gang Trinh

Animation Supervisors: Weta Digital -

Sidney Kombo and Paul Story

Senior Animation Supervisor: Method Studios -

Keith Roberts

Animation Supervisors: Method Studios -

Daniel Mizuguchi and Christopher Perkowitz-Colvard

Animation Supervisor: Cinesite - Eamonn Butler

Animation Supervisor: Digital Domain -

Jan Philip Cramer

CG Supervisors: Weta Digital -

Gourdal Sebastien, Glen Sharah and

Sean Noel Walker

CG Supervisor: Cinesite - Chris Petts

Senior Virtual Production Supervisor - Matt Madden

Digital Model Supervisor - Bruce Holcomb

Compositing Supervisor: Framestore - Christian Zeh

Compositing Supervisor: Lola Visual Effects -

Edson Williams

3D Stereoscopic Supervisor - Evan Jacobs

Editors - Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt

Sound Designer - David Farmer

Sound Designer/Effects Editor (Uncredited) -

Nia Hansen

Supervising Sound Editors - Daniel Laurie

and Shannon Mills

ADR Supervisor - Daniel Laurie

Sound Mixers - Arda Koca and John Pritchett

Re-Recording Mixers - Tom Johnson and

Juan Peralta

Foley Artists - Shelley Roden and John Roesch

Music Supervisor - Dave Jordan

Music - Alan Silvestri

Score Recordist - Peter Cobbin

Review

When Thor: Ragnarok came out with acclaim in 2017, and so did Black Panther in the following year, both these films strengthened box office records while outperforming most features that aren't even part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The hype gets large as the wait is over for the newly released film AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, which the ongoing public has all been enthusiastic about its larger-than-life scale. Better than Age of Ultron, this is the franchise's darkest and most unexpected movie that contains a melancholic cliffhanger copied off from the same scenario as The Empire Strikes Back. This ending is heart-wrenching and may shock and surprise everyone who isn't a Marvel fan.

INFINITY WAR has a profound emotional impact on the storyline with action sequences and splendid visuals. The additions to the movie were the additional heroes that just crossed over from previous stand-alone films of the MCU. These include Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc. (except a few like Ant-Man, The Wasp and Captain Marvel, who all have forthcoming movies before they appear in the second part of the feature). All this big movie comes with an excessive running time of 149 minutes. It is even better than the first instalment of The Avengers.

The actors are back in the large ensemble cast as the lead and supporting characters for this hugely structured and big-budgeted crossover. Josh Brolin is one of these actors. He gets a chance to portray the known villain Thanos after being introduced to the character in fewer early Marvel movies. Brolin gives all he has to make the infamous Mad Titan a complex character with powerful motives. It achieved a constantly threatening antagonist than the MCU has envisioned in Killmonger and Loki. The music score was perfect with the continuing collaborations of Alan Silvestri, who has returned to compose the third instalment of The Avengers.

INFINITY WAR is a thrilling edge-of-a-seat experience and possibly the best movie of MCU that we have come to this far. I recommend watching the first two films before deciding on which one you plan to see if it'll be this one.

Star rating: (10/10) Best Movie Ever

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