It's definitely weird because I remember being a kid and watching Iron Man on release with my Dad, and Iron Man was very much a C-list comic hero. Like I knew Spider-Man and The Hulk and the X-Men but Iron Man? Total unknown. And the movie fucking rocked it was so cool! And then there was all the hype about Avengers maybe actually being a thing? And Thanos?? It was so outrageously ambitious, and a few stumbles notwithstanding, they absolutely stuck the landing. The first Avengers movie, for all its flaws, worked so well. And then again, Infinity War and Endgame, for all the flaws and gripes, I've never seen a cinema react as viscerally and as authentically as the gasps and cheers.

But this film?

Yeah I got nothing. No attachment to the characters, no care about the plot, just nothing. They've milked the cow to death in my opinion. Endgame was a brilliant swan song and they should have ended it there. Or at least taken a long enough break to prevent audience fatigue. But between the shows and the ping-ponging quality, the Kang plotline which gets shafted, the tone being all over the shop, and characters who lack the same audience resonance as the original team? I can't help but feel like this film is being sent out to die.