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Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 superhero movie and is the nineteenth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is produced by Marvel Studios and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Avengers: Infinity War is a sequel to 2012's Marvel's The Avengers and 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron.
It was directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Josh Brolin, and Chris Pratt.
This movie and its sequel were originally titled Avengers: Infinity War - Part 1 and Avengers: Infinity War - Part 2. However, the title was shortened to Avengers: Infinity War. It was said by the Russo brothers that they would not reveal the title for the fourth Avengers movie because it would spoil the ending to Avengers: Infinity War. The title for the fourth Avengers movie was later revealed to be Avengers: Endgame.
Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame is the end of ten years worth of storylines in the Marvel Cinematic Universe which began with 2008's Iron Man.
Alex Robson and Will Robson did a review of Avengers: Infinity War on the Spider-Man: The Animated Series Podcast.
Plot[]
Having acquired the Power Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones, from planet Xandar, Thanos and his followers known as the Children of Thanos (consisting of Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Proxima Midnight, and Corvus Glaive) intercept the spaceship carrying the survivors of Asgard's destruction (as seen in the ending of Thor: Ragnarok). As they extract the Space Stone from the Tesseract, Thanos subdues Thor, overpowers Hulk, and kills Loki. Heimdall sends Hulk to Earth using the Bifrost before being killed. Thanos departs with his followers and destroys the ship.
Hulk crash-lands at the Sanctum Sanctorum in New York City, reverting back to the form of Bruce Banner. He warns Doctor Strange and Wong about Thanos's plan to kill half of all life in the universe, and they recruit Tony Stark. Maw and Obsidian arrive to retrieve the Time Stone from Strange, drawing the attention of Peter Parker. Maw captures Strange, but fails to take the Time Stone due to an enchantment. Stark and Peter sneak aboard Maw's spaceship, Banner contacts Steve Rogers, and Wong stays behind to guard the Sanctum.
In Edinburgh, Scotland, Midnight and Glaive ambush Scarlet Witch and Vision in order to retrieve the Mind Stone, which is in Vision's forehead. Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson rescue them and they take shelter with James Rhodes and Banner at the Avengers Facility. Vision offers to sacrifice himself by having Scarlet Witch destroy the Mind Stone to keep Thanos from retrieving it, but Scarlet Witch refuses. Rogers suggests they travel to Wakanda, which he believes has the resources to remove the Stone without destroying Vision.
The Guardians of the Galaxy respond to a distress call from the Asgardian ship and rescue Thor, who surmises that Thanos is currently going after the Reality Stone, which is in the possession of the Collector on Knowhere. Rocket and Groot accompany Thor to Nidavellir, where they and Eitri create Stormbreaker, a battle-ax capable of killing Thanos. On Knowhere, Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, and Mantis find Thanos with the Reality Stone already in his possession. Thanos kidnaps Gamora, his adopted daughter, who reveals the Soul Stone is on Vormir in order to save her captive adopted sister, Nebula, from torture. On Vormir, the Stone's keeper, Red Skull, tells Thanos that he can only acquire it by sacrificing someone he loves. Thanos kills Gamora, earning the Stone.
Nebula escapes captivity and asks the remaining Guardians to meet her at Thanos's destroyed homeworld, Titan. Stark and Parker kill Maw and rescue Strange. Landing on Titan, they meet Quill, Drax, and Mantis. Strange uses the Time Stone to view millions of possible futures, seeing only one in which Thanos loses. The group forms a plan to subdue Thanos and remove the Infinity Gauntlet, which he uses to house the Stones. Thanos appears and justifies his plans as necessary to ensure the survival of a universe threatened by overpopulation. Nebula arrives soon after, and helps the others subdue Thanos until she deduces that Thanos has killed Gamora. Enraged, Quill attacks Thanos, allowing him to break the group's hold and overpower them. Stark is seriously wounded by Thanos, but is spared after Strange surrenders the Time Stone to Thanos.
In Wakanda, Rogers reunites with Bucky Barnes before Thanos's army invades. The Avengers, alongside T'Challa and the Wakandan forces, mount a defense while Shuri works to extract the Mind Stone from Vision. Banner, unable to transform into the Hulk, fights in Stark's Hulkbuster armor. Thor, Rocket, and Groot arrive to reinforce the Avengers; Midnight, Obsidian, and Glaive are killed and their army is routed, but Shuri is unable to complete the extraction of the Mind Stone from Vision. Thanos arrives to retrieve the Mind Stone, but before he can do so Wanda destroys it. Using the Time Stone, Thanos reverses Wanda's actions and rips the repaired Mind Stone from Vision's forehead, killing him. Thor severely wounds Thanos with Stormbreaker, but Thanos activates the completed Gauntlet by snapping his fingers and teleports away.
Thanos used the snap to activate the Infinity Stones and uses them disintegrate half of all life across the universe, including Barnes, Black Panther, Groot, Scarlet Witch, Falcon, Mantis, Drax, Star-Lord, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man. Iron Man and Nebula remain on Titan while Banner, M'Baku, Okoye, War Machine, Rocket, Captain America, Black Widow, and Thor are left on the Wakandan battlefield. Meanwhile, Thanos watches the sunrise on another planet.
In the post-credit scene Nick Fury and Maria Hill are driving down a street in New York City. Fury asks if Hill has heard anything from Stark. However, Hill answers that she hasn't heard from him. As Hill looks at her computer she informs Fury that there is an energy signature coming from Wakanda and that it is ten times bigger than the energy readings from the Chitauri invasion of Manhattan. A car then crashes into Fury's van. As Hill goes to check on the driver she sees that the driver has mysteriously disappeared. As Fury looks behind him he sees a helicopter crash into a building. When Fury looks back at Hill, he sees her turn into dust, along with every one else around him. Fury then turns into dust himself. However, before Fury totally vanishes he is able to send a distress signal to Captain Marvel.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Robert Downey Jr. | Iron Man / Tony Stark |
| Chris Hemsworth | Thor Odinson |
| Mark Ruffalo | Bruce Banner |
| Lou Ferrigno | Hulk (voice; uncredited) |
| Chris Evans | Captain America / Steve Rogers |
| Scarlett Johannson | Black Widow / Natasha Romanoff |
| Benedict Cumberbatch | Doctor Strange / Stephen Strange |
| Don Cheadle | War Machine / James "Rhodey" Rhodes |
| Tom Holland | Spider-Man / Peter Parker |
| Chadwick Boseman | Black Panther / T'Challa |
| Paul Bettany | Vision |
| Elizabeth Olsen | Scarlet Witch / Wanda Maximoff |
| Anthony Mackie | Falcon / Sam Wilson |
| Sebastian Stan | James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes / Winter Soldier |
| Tom Hiddleston | Loki Laufeyson |
| Idris Elba | Heimdall |
| Peter Dinklage | Eitri |
| Benedict Wong | Wong |
| Pom Klementieff | Mantis |
| Karen Gillan | Nebula |
| Dave Bautista | Drax the Destroyer |
| Zoe Saldana | Gamora |
| Vin Deasel | Groot (voice) |
| Bradley Cooper | Rocket (voice) |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | Virginia "Pepper" Potts |
| Benicio del Toro | The Collector / Taneleer Tivan |
| Josh Brolin | Thanos (voice) |
| Chris Pratt | Star-Lord / Peter Quill |
| Danai Gurira | Okoye |
| Letitia Wright | Shuri |
| William Hurt | Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross |
| Kerry Condon | F.R.I.D.A.Y. (voice) |
| Winston Duke | M'Baku |
| Florence Kasumba | Ayo |
| Jacob Batalon | Ned |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Nick Fury (uncredited) |
| Cobie Smulders | Maria Hill (uncredited) |
| Terry Notary | Groot (motion capture) Cull Obsidian (voice and motion capture) |
| Tom Vaughan-Lawlor | Ebony Maw (voice and motion capture) |
| Carrie Coon | Proxima Midnight (voice and motion capture) |
| Michael James Shaw | Corvus Glaive (motion capture and voice) |
| Ross Marquand | Red Skull / Johann Schmidt |
| Stan Lee | School bus driver |
| Stephan McFeely | Secretary Ross's aide |
| Kenneth Branagh | Asgardian |
| David Cross | Specimen in the Collector's collection |
| Jon Favreau | Harold "Happy" Hogan (deleted scenes) |
| Sean Gunn | Rocket (motion capture) |
Kenneth Branagh was the director of the 2011 Thor movie
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Avengers: Endgame was released on April 26, 2019, with the Russos returning to direct, and Marcus and McFeely once again writing the screenplay.