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Avengers: Infinity War Review - Worlds Collide

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Let me just preface this by saying that if you're a Marvel fan, and you haven't yet gone to see Infinity War, then you need to change that. Straight after you finish reading this, that is. Alright, on to the professional stuff. 10 years after Iron Man hit the silver screen and introduced us to what has become the MCU, or the 'Marvel Cinematic Universe' if you hate initialisms, Avengers: Infinity War is here. It's t he first part of a two-part story (even if no longer in name), concluding in Avengers 4 next year. Truly the culmination of everything that's come before it, Infinity War takes everything the MCU has built, smashes it together, and the result is one of the best films in the franchise, and no doubt the most expensive. After 18 films, five Infinity Stones, and God-knows-how-many superheroes, Thanos (Josh Brolin) is here. One of the franchise's infamous flaws is with its villains, with the majority of the films failing to offer any that are ov...