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What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner from Taxi Driver with a mentally ill loner from The King of Comedy with a mentally ill loner from the Batman universe? You get a blended margarita of insanity that can only be pulled off by Joaquin Phoenix...and you get a pretty damn good movie!

After a long hiatus, we actually managed to get everyone in the same room, at the same time, having watched the same movie...though this doesn't mean we are all on the same page. Shark, according to all his texts and seeing the movie twice, really liked it...but you would never be able to tell from hearing him speak on this episode. Erik, not a big fan of Quentin, mostly had a problem with the exorbitant length of the movie but was immensely impressed with Leo DiCaprio's acting. Paul simply hated everything about it - the meandering plot to nowhere, the fetishiszed violence against women, and the only discernable message of the movie being "if you want to get into the inner circle of Hollywood with pedophiles like Roman Polanski, you better be good with a flame thrower."Amy enjoyed the movie the most out of everyone, in large part due to Brad Pitt's relentless bad-assery and six-packery...and who can blame her, really?
The one thing everyone agreed on is that Quentin's portrayal of Bruce Lee was whacked out, wildly inaccurate and disrespectful. Quentin taking a pop-culture icon, universally beloved by everyone in the world, and disingenuously painting him as an arrogant ass, is a perfect example of a director lacking one of the most important tools in his tool set - someone that can tell him "No". Scary to think, that person probably used to be Harvey Weinstein!
 

It is a rare occurrence when the whole Rekt crew actually likes a movie, and Endgame managed to make it into that rare company. It's hard to tell we liked it from listening to the show, because there is still quite a lot to gripe about, if you care for such things as logic, plot holes, and a movie following its own time travel rules. The disappointing thing was how strong the movie started out - with a real sense of loss, darkness and the aftermath of the infamous Thanos finger snap and some genuinely unexpected turns. The never-ending fan service also gets quite old, with constant references and flashbacks to earlier MCU movies. Some are integral to the plot and some are genuinely funny, but many other ones are unnecessary and if you are not a religiously obsessive fan, can get confusing. 
The final battle is big, very cartoonish and strives to give every single character a chance to take a swing at Thanos. All that's missing is little league soccer style participation awards being handed out after. The post-battle wrap-up is fairly anti-climactic and kind of a drag. Where the movie starts out poignantly underscoring the immense loss felt by the world that lost 50% of it's population, perhaps a better ending would be to show the joy of everyday people, impossibly, getting their loved ones back, rather than focusing solely on the small clique of heroes and their personal catharses. 
Flaws aside, most of the film is strong, entertaining and the sheer feat of landing such a huge thing after so many years and multiple story lines is quite impressive. 

The Rekt krew chimes in on the do's and dont's of Captain Marvel and expound on the wider aspects of the MCU and the upcoming "Endgame" culmination. 

Is this the real life of Freddy Mercury? Is this just fantasy? Doesn't really matter to meeeeeeee.

On a very special episode of Rekt Reviews, the reking crew, ever-hungry for the affection of strangers, reviews "The Predator" with live streaming video on Caffeine.tv. Caffeine is a brand new live streaming video platform, (think Twitch, minus the sexist, racist troll infestation). 
Amy - "The Predator is a national treasure!"Paul - "The greatest movie since "Gremlins!"Shark - "I can't believe you made me watch this piece of $H!t"Erik - "Kffshsst" (sound of microbrew cans openig"