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RTS Film Review: Did Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 give us a good ending and was it the best?

Updated: Aug 22, 2023


The Guardians Last Mission Together

Marvel Studios Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was a really good fun movie to watch the film starts off with The Guardians on Knowhere and we see Rocket walking around looking at the people of Knowhere and some of the other Guardians fixing up the town. Peter Quill is drunk and still upset because Gamora is not with them so Nebula puts Peter in his bed so he can sleep and the rest of the Guardians talk about how to make Peter feel better. Later that night Adam Warlock who was created by the Sovereign Priestess Ayesha comes to take out the Guardians one by one and he almost killed Drax but Nebula was able to stop him and Adam ends up getting away. Rocket is seriously hurt so Peter and Mantis try to save him but they find out that Rocket has a kill switch in him, so none of them can't do anything until they get the kill switch code they need from Orgocorp to save Rocket. We see The High Evolutionary talk to Ayesha about not getting Rocket and he tells her if she doesn't bring him Rocket she will pay for it.


We get a flashback scene about Rocket past when he was a baby and we see how he was created by High Evolutionary and we also see some of Rocket old friends that was also experiment on. High Evolutionary was really interested in Rocket because he was able to figure out and fix his machines that was transforming animals and Rocket finds out that High Evolutionary is trying to create a perfect Counter-Earth by making enhanced animals for it. Rocket try to free his friends Lylla, Teefs and Floor because he finds out from High Evolutionary that they would not be going to Counter-Earth because Evolutionary told his workers to take Rocket brain and kill his friends. So when Rocket was getting his friends out of the cage High Evolutionary shoots and killed Lylla and Rocket attacks him and take out some of Evolutionary guards but Teefs and Floor was also killed and that's when we see Rocket escape High Evolutionary ship.


The Guardians meet up with The Ravagers and Gamora so they can break into Orgocorp so we see Peter, Gamora and Nebula go get Rocket file while Drax and Mantis go to look around Orgocorp. Peter, Gamora and Nebula was able to get the file but they find out that the kill switch code is missing and the Orgocorp guards finds out that the Guardians are trespassing and stealing a file. So all of the Guardians started fighting the Orgocorp guards and Drax gets shot two times but he survived and all of them was able to escape. The Guardians find out that one of High Evolutionary scientist name Theel has the code and they decide to go after them but Gamora does not want to go with them. Ayesha and Adam Warlock talk to one of the Ravagers to find out where the Guardians are going, Adam killed him by accident but they are able to find out where Gamora and the Guardians are going next so they can get Rocket and take him to High Evolutionary.


The Guardians go to Counter-Earth and they can't believe how it looks and they talk to one of the female enhanced animals and she shows them where to find High Evolutionary and that's when Peter decided to take Nebula and Groot with him to go see Evolutionary. Peter tells Drax and Mantis to stay behind with Rocket and Gamora and we see Peter, Nebula and Groot at High Evolutionary's ship but only Peter and Groot can go in because two of High Evolutionary enhanced bodyguards won't let Nebula go with them. Drax convince Mantis to go help Peter and we see Peter talk to High Evolutionary about Rocket and his Counter-Earth not being so perfect and High Evolutionary agrees with Peter. So High Evolutionary decides to destroy Counter-Earth and everyone on it so he can build a new one that can be perfect. The ship starts to rise to go into space and that's when Peter and Groot starts to fight some of High Evolutionary guards. One of High Evolutionary enhanced bodyguards went to the Guardians ship to get Rocket and Gamora tried to stop the bodyguard from taking Rocket back to Evolutionary's ship. Then Adam Warlock comes to take Rocket back to High Evolutionary himself and he kills the enhanced bodyguard and that's when Counter-Earth started to explode.


After Peter and Groot get done taking out the guards Peter kicks Theel the one with the kill switch code out of the ship and we see Peter and Groot jump out of High Evolutionary's ship and the both of them grabs Theel and they was able to land on the ground safety. Peter noticed that the impact of hitting the ground killed Theel and Peter gets the code from him and Gamora shows up with their ship to pick the both of them up. Drax, Mantis and Nebula jump on Evolutionary's ship because they think Groot and Peter are still on there and we see Gamora, Peter, and Groot uses the code on Rocket but it's not working and Rocket ends up flatlines. We see Rocket talking to Lylla and he also sees Teefs and Floor in the background and Rocket tells Lylla he is ready to go with them. Lylla hugs Rocket and tells him it's not his time to go and we see Rocket wake up because the code is working and Peter hugs him so does Groot. Peter calls Mantis, Nebula and Drax to see where they were and Nebula tells him that they are on Evolutionary's ship to save him and Groot but they are happy to hear that Rocket is alive. So Peter comes up with a plan and he calls Kraglin and Cosmo and tells them to bring the planet Knowhere to them so they can get the rest of the group off of Evolutionary's ship.


Nebula, Mantis and Drax was looking around Evolutionary's ship and they find that he has a lot of imprisoned young kids but the three of them ends up in this pit fill with three Abilisks but Mantis was able to get them under her control. Peter, Rocket, Groot and Gamora shows up on Evolutionary's ship and all of the Guardians are back together and we see all of the Guardians fighting all of Evolutionary's guards and enhanced soldiers and they free all of the kids. Kraglin shows up with Knowhere and Cosmo was able to connect the planet to Evolutionary's ship using her telekinetic power and we see the Guardians and some of the people of Knowhere get the kids off the ship. Rocket tell some of the kids where to go and he goes to this one room and Rocket sees a lot of imprisoned animals and he also sees a bunch of baby raccoons and Rocket now knows that he has always been a raccoon. Rocket goes to save the animals but High Evolutionary attacked him but we see the Guardians come to help Rocket and all of them was able to take him down.


Rocket tells Peter and the group to save the animals so the Guardians get all of the animals on Knowhere and Peter drops his IPod and he goes back to get it and he jumps from High Evolutionary's ship before it explodes. Peter almost didn't make it but Adam Warlock saves him and everyone is happy and hugs Peter and Gamora walks away. After the battle with High Evolutionary and his army Peter has a talk with the group and he tells them that he is leaving and he is making Rocket the new leader. Mantis also said she is leaving too and the rest of the group are sad about the news but they understand why Mantis and Peter are leaving. So all of them hug each other one more time and Groot tells all of them he loves all of them. After that Gamora is getting ready to leave and she says goodbye to Groot and Peter and she goes back with The Ravagers, Peter goes back to earth to be with his grandfather and Mantis leaves with the three Abilisks. The rest of the Guardians listens to some music and having fun with the people of Knowhere and all of the kids and that's how the movie ends. In the Mid-Credits Scene we see The New Guardians Team of Rocket, Kraglin, Adam Warlock, Cosmo, Groot and Phyla on a mission listening to music and saving a town and in the Post-Credits Scene we see Peter talking to his grandfather eating breakfast.


I have to say that this was the best Guardians of the Galaxy film in the trilogy and I can also say that this was the best MCU film in Phase Five so far. I enjoy the fight scene, the jokes, Rocket backstory and High Evolutionary was a really good villain, I also like how they introduce Adam Warlock I thought he was good and I hope will we see him more in other MCU films. I like how they introduce Counter-Earth and the CGI was really good and some of the Easter Eggs in this film was also good too. I did like mid-credits scene but it was the post-credits scene that got me because it said that Star-Lord will come back and it makes me think which future MCU film or TV Series is Peter going to be in. This was a good send off for most of the cast and James Gunn and I do hope we will see The New Guardians Team again.


I would definitely recommend to go watch this film and I will give it a 8.5/10


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