Eternals, thumbs up, thumbs down?
I'll give it a tentative
. I really liked it but completely understand why some wont. I'm thinking it's the best Marvel movie since End Game, as the other 3 were pretty middling and didn't really move the ball forward in anyway, but still sits firmly in the bottom half of Marvel movies.
Spoiler!
I think it's a movie that could easily lose a person with all of the new characters, and all of the jumping around, but they handled that the best they could. I really like to overall plot, Arishem was a motivated villain with a purpose, our heros struggle with relative vs absolute morality was compelling, message the meaning of life is to suffer and create more life is beautifully cynical, they asked some fun questions about the problem of Evil (what is evil, how do we know it exists, who do we know god isn't evil?...)
Acting was good enough but not great (I don't care what people say Jolie & Madden are bad actors, the rest of them were good), cinematography/cgi was OK, but I don't understand why neither Marvel or DC can get that Superman style of flight correct, it looks fine with Wanda or Vision or Ironman..., but you get to Superman or Icarus and and it's 2006 TV quality.
I'm now thinking this will be very important for setting up the finale of phase 4. Eros & the 3 space Eternals will collect the Asguardians of the Galaxy & Cpt Marvel. And the 3 earthbound Eternals will stand in judgment to be found guilty bringing punishment on Earth. The punishment taking place in the Fantastic 4, when Galactus is sent to Earth. They will all have to join whatever Earthbound heros and Multiversal heros we have at the time for a big phase ending battle to stop earth from being consumed.
I feel like a lot of people are thinking we are headed towards Battler World / Secret Wars, and I agree but I suspect we only 2 years into another 10 year journey in order to get us there. Galactus will be our 2012 Avengers waypoint on the journey towards battle world.