Ranking the MCU: Marvel’s Best and Worst Movies
20. Avengers: Age of Ultron
Man, where do we start with this one? First of all the controversy surrounding Black Widow. What the hell was supposed feminist Joss Whedon thinking? I won’t get into everything he did wrong (that’s an article for another day), but he messed up REAL bad. The film itself owes a lot to James Spader for voicing Ultron, but it was so rushed that there was never time to let anything sink it. In the end, it was a slapdash mess that only served as a stepping stone to phases 3.
19. Iron Man 3
It’s our old buddy Iron Man again! Considering he’s one of the most beloved characters in the MCU, he hasn’t really made too many great movies. This was about the time that Marvel decided to start mixing genres into its superhero movies, and the whole spy thriller really wasn’t the kind of thing Tony Stark would excel at. Plus, they messed up a villain fans had been looking forward to since the first Iron Man movie. Now, it wasn’t awful, but it tried to do a lot from the Iron Man comics and spread itself really thin.
18. Avengers: Infinity War
The movie that fans have been waiting too ever since that big purple guy looked over his shoulder and smirked at the end of Avengers. There was a lot riding on Infinity War because it was the end of an era for the Marvel movies. Contracts were ending and there was going to be a changing of the guard that would forever change the MCU. The downside is that there was no way that it could ever have lived up to what fans wanted. That being said, it’s not a bad movie at all, it just suffers from high expectations.
17. Ant-Man
It’s at this point in the rankings that things really start to look up. Ant-Man suffered a lot of behind-the-scenes drama, but in the end, managed to pull a decent film from that wreckage. It really wasn’t given the Marvel push we have all come to expect, but I will say that it was a charming film. Paul Rudd was a bold choice that really paid off and, of course, there was Michael Peña who stole the show. All in all, it was one of the better hero origin stories to come out of Marvel
16. Black Widow
Well, Black Widow finally got a movie of her own, even though she died in Avengers: Endgame two years earlier… I was never a big fan of Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanov in the MCU because it seemed like Marvel really didn’t know what it was doing with the character. Fortunately, they actually got their act together a bit with Black Widow, and while it won’t earn a top 10 spot among the movies of the MCU, it is a fun action flick that has a lot going for it, especially when it comes to Florence Pugh‘s Yelena Belova.