10 Terrible Third Acts That Ruined Recent Movies
2. The Marvels
When the chief praise for a movie centers around its short runtime, you know things aren't going well. And while The Marvels had a touch more fun and soul to it than Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, it's still another lackluster MCU outing which totally falls apart at crunch time.
Once the movie's admirably deranged Flerken stampede scene is done with, it's all downhill for the remainder.
The final battle with nothingburger villain Dar-Benn (Zawe Ashton) is, somewhat appropriately, completely forgettable, with Dar-Benn being defeated 20 minutes before the end of the movie without massive effort on the part of the film's heroic trio.
From there, Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) repairs the multiversal rift caused by Dar-Benn's actions, Carol (Brie Larson) does the thing she should've done all along and re-energises Hala's sun with her powers, and uh, moves into Maria Rambeau's (Lashana Lynch) house in Louisiana. Not exactly a riveting way to wrap things up, then, and even the dual closing teases of the Young Avengers and the O.G. X-Men scarcely moved the needle much further.
The Marvels was already an OK-at-best movie before it remembered it had to come up with a way to end, and what followed was one of the MCU's weakest third acts to date.
Before our final entry now, know that MAJOR SPOILERS will follow for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes if you haven't seen it yet.