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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