Avengers: End Game (Film Review)

What can I say about the “finale” of an over twenty-part film series to an over decade-long franchise?  There’s a lot I have to say about End Game, and most of it has already been said by other reviewers.  Nonetheless, I figure I’ll give my own two cents on the film, yet with a slight twist to the usual formula.  Here are one-hundred thoughts, over the course of the summer, of the strengths, weaknesses, surprises, interactions, and nods to the comics I saw from by multiple viewings of Avengers: End Game.

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD:

1. The opening sequence featuring Hawkeye is a chillingly effective way to start Endgame, in addition to being a great way of bringing Hawkeye into the final film.

2. There’s so much Nebula greatness in Endgame.  I've never cared much for her character before, yet here she goes from zero to the film’s MVP when it comes to characterization.

3. The scene where Nebula and Tony are playing paper football is so charmingly adorable. Who would have guessed these two would have such surprisingly effective chemistry (I also love how Tony refers to her as the blue meanie and that she's only a “little sadistic”)?

4. I love the little extra touches where Nebula declines the extra oxygen so that Tony can have it, and when she caringly picks him up from the floor and into a chair during their seemingly last moments.  It really shows how far she's come from the sadistic killer she was in Guardians of the Galaxy.

5. Tony and Rocket’s humorous first interaction: 

• Rocket: Yeah, he's pissed. He thinks he failed. Which of course he did, but there's a lot of that's goin' around, ain't there? 
• Tony: Honestly, until this exact second, I thought you were a Build-A-Bear. 
• Rocket: Maybe I am.