Avengers: Endgame is going to be out, and some countries have already had the luxury of its early release. But tomorrow is the day when the whole world gets to watch it. Avengers: Endgame is already a critical and commercial success even though it hasn’t opened in all the countries as of this moment. The world premiere brought in nothing but great reactions from the fans and rave reviews from the critics. This film currently has a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
It is the epic culmination of 21 movies that have formed the Infinity Saga. Avengers: Endgame will be the grand finale even though Spider-Man: Far From Home is the last movie of Phase 3. Endgame will have tie all the knots that were left hanging lose by the previous MCU movies. With Time Travel, it will literally take us back to many of the previous films. So, for the best experience and to really jog our memory, we need to watch a few MCU movies again, if not all.
The Russos said that watching Civil War and Infinity War is a must, but we can be sure that there will certainly be more movies that will tie into Endgame. Now that the world premiere has happened and many people have seen it, we now have the updated list of the films that we will need to watch before Endgame. Here’s the list given to us by Comicbook.com:
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- The Avengers
- Thor: The Dark World
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Captain America: Civil War
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Captain Marvel
Now if you focus upon this list, every movie in here either involves an Infinity Stone or is directed by the Russos. Since the Civil War and The Winter Soldier were films directed by Joe & Anthony Russo, they had to make the list, and the other 7 movies were directly impacted by the use of Infinity Stones. Talking about them, we could also add Doctor Strange to this list since the significance of the Time Stone will be really important.
Be sure to watch as many of these as you can. If there’s no time left, then either take a look at a recap video on Youtube, or perhaps try and watch all the Avengers movies at least! Here are a few reviews from major movie critics:
Brandon Davis – Comicbook.com
“The final movie in Marvel’s Infinity Saga is a masterpiece. It’s an absolute spectacle which needs to be watched on the biggest screen possible. It’s a love letter to fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In fact, I’d argue that Avengers: Endgame is the film event of our lifetime and lives up to every bit of global hype it has garnered. It is setting a new standard and raising the bar for event films and likely will not be matched in this generation of filmmaking.”
Peter Debruge – Variety
“That said, readers should also be warned that “Avengers: Endgame” hinges on the most frustrating of narrative tricks, and that no meaningful analysis of the film can take place without delving into some of the choices made by the Russo brothers and screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. If “Infinity War” was billed as a must-see event for all moviegoers, whether or not they’d attended a single Marvel movie prior, then “Endgame” is the ultimate fan-service follow-up, so densely packed with pay-offs to relationships established in the previous films that it all but demands that audiences put in the homework of watching (or rewatching) a dozen earlier movies to appreciate the sense of closure it offers the series’ most popular characters.”
Todd McCarthy – The Hollywood Reporter
“Nonetheless, it’s an amiable brand of melancholy that pervades the film, one that scarcely gets in the way of the enthusiasm and excitement that Marvel adventures almost always deliver in some measure or another. The feeling of finality and potential farewell is sometimes suggested quietly just in the way certain moments are lingered over, conveying the fatalistic sense that this might well be the last time around the block for some of these characters. At the rate it’s going, Marvel will be around for the better part of forever, but this will likely be the studio swan song for a number of the cast members.”
Endgame – Tomorrow!
