Pros:
- Overall, the story is solid and surprisingly coherent.
- Thanos is great.
- Performances. The ones by Zoe Saldana (!), Josh Brolin and Benedict Cumberbatch in particular.
- The CGI during sequences without action.
- Keeps moving, great pace (I wasn’t overwhelmed by it at all).
- It has stakes, and gets very dark and dour, but not in a murky Zack Snyder way.
- It’s also fun and funny, but this doesn’t conflict with the darkness (transitions very well from scene to scene).
- The visuals during the space scenes, feels LOTR-esque at times.
- Managed to make me care about some characters I couldn’t stand in their previous film ( [spoiler] talking about Thor, Rocket, Groot and Mantis here [/spoiler] )
- Character interactions.
- Character arcs for [spoiler] Wanda/Vision and Gamora/Thanos. [/spoiler]
- Emotional as a result of that. Doesn’t feel as soulless as Civil War.

Cons:
- Most of the action is unimpressive due to overediting and digital replacements.
- The ending just doesn’t work for me ( [spoiler] good idea to do a mic drop, but everyone with a brain knows these deaths will be undone, so it didn’t do much for me. Would’ve preferred one more actual death. [/spoiler] )
- Takes too many leaps; doesn’t always perfectly connect with the previous MCU movies ( e.g. [spoiler] missing characters like Korg and Valkyrie; Thanos already having a stone; and even the way Civil War is resolved between Cap and Rhodey doesn’t work [/spoiler] )
- The visuals during the earth scenes are not strong enough for a 300 million Dollar movie.
- Mark Ruffalo’s acting during some scenes still feels phoney to me.

Rating: 7/10