Eternals Early Reviews Critics Divided Over Marvel’s Latest Epic

Eternals Early Reviews: Critics Divided Over Marvel’s Latest Epic

Reviews for the MCU’s latest are in and they say Eternals is one of the most expansive and un-Marvel like movies ever released – for better or worse.

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Eternals Early Reviews Critics Divided Over Marvel’s Latest Epic

Early reviews for Marvel’s Eternals are in. The MCU’s third Phase 4 film and its third entry in 2021, Eternals is its most expansive film yet. Introducing an entirely new group of superpowered beings, the film is directed by Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao. Eternals stars Gemma Chan as Sersi, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Angelina Jolie as Thena, Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Kumail Najiani as Kingo, Leah McHugh as Sprite, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, Barry Keoghan as Druig, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, and Salma Hayek as Ajak. They will be joined by Kit Harington as Dane Whitman, the man who eventually becomes the Black Knight in Marvel lore.

Eternals will see the group of cosmic heroes reemerge to fight the Deviants and a mysterious, world ending event dubbed the Emergence. After being instructed not to interfere with human affairs unless Deviants are involved, the Eternals will once again rear their heads and reunite to do battle. The film is slated to premiere in theaters exclusively on November 5 after a lengthy set of delays and anticipation is high for the film.

Now, early reviews for Eternals are in and critics say it’s unlike anything seen in the MCU before. Many praise Zhao for her vision, especially when it comes to the heart at the center of Eternals. Some say the film can get bogged down by its runtime and overly complicated story. Check out what the critics had to say below:

Molly Freeman, SR

Eternals is a thrilling, epic superhero adventure all its own, with a captivating emotional heart brought to life beautifully by Zhao’s direction. It’s a Marvel movie unlike anything the MCU has seen thus far.

Robert Abele, The Wrap

After so many Marvel movies that give lip service to the thornier ramifications of its hero narratives, there’s an earnestness to the operatic stakes in Eternals that somehow helps fuse what’s physically spectacular and philosophical about it. That it’s played out, too, by a cast that looks like our world only burnishes what Zhao is trying to pull off from inside a trope-laden franchise.

Jamie Jirak, ComicBook

Eternals will likely be one of the more divisive films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The strong characters and visuals will be enough for some fans to consider it one of the best of the franchise while others will find its messy plot and extended runtime a hard pill to swallow. No matter how you feel about Eternals, there’s no denying Phase Four is off to an exciting start.

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David Rooney, THR

While the zigzagging convolutions of the storytelling can prove frustrating, particularly in the film’s lumpy first half, there’s plenty to keep you engaged in the mix of camaraderie, friction and rivalry among the bantering Eternals, who are not without vulnerabilities. The script finds humor and poignancy in the challenges of a group of soldiers forced to find their purpose in a mortal world that for the longest time has not required their special skills.

Steve Rose, The Guardian

That’s the problem: there’s just too much going on: it’s all headed towards yet another “race against time to stop the really bad thing happening” climax. It’s not exactly boring – there’s always something new to behold – but nor it is particularly exciting, and it lacks the breezy wit of Marvel’s best movies.

Hoai-Tran Bui, SlashFilm

With Eternals, Marvel turns a risky gamble into another piece of the puzzle. Its cosmic ambitions, its prevailing humanism amid a nihilistic outlook, and its gestures at maturity — the (real!) sex scene, the depth and warmth that they give to Henry’s LGBTQ relationship — are not enough to make Eternals more than just another film to fit neatly in the Marvel Studios mold.

Mason Downey, Game Spot

There is plenty of forward momentum to be found here and Marvel’s willingness to deviate from its own formulas is a hopeful trend that Phase 4 continues to double down on. With any luck, these characters will continue to grow and evolve as they return in future movies and the techniques Zhao was able to include as a director won’t be one-offs.

David Ehrlich, IndieWire

Superhero movies are often defended as the Westerns of their day, but Westerns are a genre — the MCU is just a stencil, and Zhao’s ability to paint with a different brush ultimately highlights how even she had to color inside the lines. The Marvel Cinematic Universe will continue to expand for the foreseeable future, but it may need to be threatened with extinction before it can actually grow.

Liam Crowley, The Direct

For anyone who fears the Marvel Cinematic Universe is getting tired, Eternals is a surge of stamina. Not every audience will embrace its boldness right out of the theater. Like all great thinker’s films, Eternals requires viewers to let it settle before truly appreciating it.

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Joshua Rivera, Polygon

Movies can be big enough for ideas like this: difficult conversations of cosmic import with no clear answer, angry confrontations with an uncaring god, and whether or not our moral compass should shift as our perspective and reach grows. But a film must create a world where those questions matter, to its characters and to its audience. In a few short lines, Zhao did that with Nomadland. Eternals, however, just isn’t big enough. Or perhaps the Marvel Cinematic Universe is just too small.

Amelia Emberwing, IGN

Eternals’ success as a film can almost entirely be attributed to the performances and relationships between characters. Their conflict and complicated connection to the human race makes for incredibly interesting subject matter. The grand scale of the galactic aspects of the story catches up quick, though. Once things shift past the Deviants and become more of a Celestial struggle, the story starts to rip at the seams. The problem is that it feels like there was truly no way for Zhao to succeed here.

Tessa Smith, Mama’s Geeky

This movie is ultimately about family. It is beautiful, touching, and all around an amazingly emotional film. There is a lot to unpack, but it is worth spending the time to do it right. That is where this movie excels. It takes its time, allowing important moments to breath.

Esther Zuckerman, Thrillist

While not without messiness and over-plotting that bogs down and overcomplicates the narrative, Eternalssucceeds as a vast and unrepentantly serious bit of world building with a moral quandary at its center.

While it’s clear that Zhao has brought something to the MCU that has never been seen before, Eternals ultimately has critics divided. This could have something to do with a packed plot (in a two and a half hour runtime no less) and a stacked cast. Breaking the Marvel Formula is becoming increasingly common in Phase 4 of the MCU and that’s exactly what Zhao has done.

Still, Eternals is clearly one of the most exciting films to come out of the MCU in quite a long time, regardless of whether or not its good or bad. And, for the most part, it truly sounds like it will be a worthy and game-changing entry in the ever expanding Marvel repertoire. With just a few short weeks until its theatrical debut, audiences will finally have a chance to see for themselves just how universe altering Eternals really is.

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