I've watched the film and feel that somehow we are being slightly cheated, it is as though they just make this one and then tempt you with a teaser for the next film. Yes it was action packed from the first, yet it was a disappointing result. I won't be watching it a second time, and most Marvel movies are the same. Is it just me?
I didn't feel at all cheated, and I felt like this definitely stood on its own. You could easily pick this up and put it down a couple of years ago, pre-
Infinity War, and you would lose nothing, I think - besides the post-credit scene there's not really much tying it the the events of
Infinity War/
Endgame. The only thing would be Fury's pager, and questions about why he doesn't call her at various points, but we already had that kind of questioning retroactively following the Infinity War post-credits scene anyway.
It's early days for sure, but I can see myself returning to this one - it was fun and breezy, but it also hit me square in the feels a couple of times. I'm by no means a Marvel completist - at this point I've not seen
Iron Man 3,
Thor 2, or
Ant-Man and the Wasp, and likely never will. There's also a bunch of others I'll never watch more than one time, but there are definitely those I'll continue to revisit - the first
Iron Man, both
Guardians films, all three
Captain America films,
Infinity War - and I could see this finding a place amongst those.
I do kind of feel that your outlook on these may be starting to become the rule rather than the exception, however, and I do wonder if there will be a drop-off in interest post-
Endgame, with the inevitable departure of RDJ and Chris Evans and some of the other original Avengers.
