Avengers: Infinity War

 What do you mean, late to the party????

It's only been what, 6.5 years since this blockbuster came out?  But finally I'm catching up on all the Star Wars, Marvel and other franchise movies and series, for no toher reason then, well, catching up...

Having aquired one of the Infinity stones, Thanos attack the Asgardian refugee ship, killing Loki and Heimdall in the process and beating up the Hulk.  He extracts the Space stone from the Tesseract as a dying Heimdall teleports Hulk to Earth to warn them of Thanos's coming.  Reverting to his Banner form, he warns Strange and Wong of the impeding danger to all life, as Thanos wants to snap out 50% of all life.

Recruiting Tony Stark, two of Thanos's lieutenants arrive to get the Time stone from Strange, causing Spider-Man to come help out as well.  Unable to obtain the Time stone, they leave in their ship with Stark and Spidey stowing away in it.  The Guardians of the Galaxy respond to the mayday of the Asgardian vessel, finding a wounded Thor.  They travel to Knowhere as they suspect Thanos going there to get the Reality stone, whom the Collector possesses.  

While the Guardians go there, Thor goes with Rocket and Groot to seek out the Dwarf king and forge the battleaxe Stormbreaker.  On Knowledge, the other Guardians arrive to late, Thanos having obtained the stone and kidnapping Gamora.  She discloses the location of the Soul stone to save her sister Nebula from torture.  But Thanos sacrifices Gamora, the one thing he truly loved, to obtain the Soul stone.

Wanda and Vision are ambushed by Thanos's forces to retrieve the Mind stone from the android, but are saved by Captain America, Black Widow and the Falcon, taking them to Banner and War Machine in the Avengers Compound.  They travel to Wakanda to find a way of removing the stone from Vision without killing him.  Stark and Spider-Man save the captured Strange, but as Strange views multiple dimensions, there is only one where the Avengers win.  Thanos appears, and they engage him, formulated a plan to remove the gauntlet from him.  But as Star-Lord learns of Gamora's death, his enrage causes the plan to fail, and Strange willingly offers his Time stone to save Stark's life.

Thanos's army then invades Wakanda, as the Avengers, Black Panther, Winter Soldier and the Wakanda troops mount a defence, in the hope that Shuri gets to extract the stone first so Wanda can destroy it.  Thor, Rocket and Groot appear to help out, and manage to rout the army, but Shuri cannot extract the stone before the arrival of the mad Titan himself, Thanos.  He reaches Vision and takes the stone, killing him, after he used the Time stone to undo Wanda destroying it.  Thor wounds Thanos, but he escapes as he makes the snap of his fingers, disintegrating half of all life in the universe...

And so the first instalment ends, with half of the heroes now gone, including Nick Fury who did manage to send out a strange signal on a special pager before disappearing.  Time to move on to the second film, and see how it all turns out in the end!