The Eternals

 Well, The Eternals has come to streaming so I've finally been able to watch it. I've been trying to decide what I think of it.

 It was OK. It wasn't great but it wasn't bad. It had some interesting ideas, some good twists and turns and a pretty neat ensemble of characters. I think it suffered from being pretty dense. There was a few too many interesting ideas, twists and turns and not all of them got enough exploration, even in a two and half hour movie.

 I also think, and this may be an unpopular opinion, that it suffered from being an MCU movie. I think it would been better if it hadn't been. 

 I know, I know... Eternals is a Marvel comic. Marvel likes playing with the idea that all the Marvel comics happen in the same shared universe. The MCU is the movie version of that. I get it... but I don't think it's necessary.

 Apart from a few throw away lines, and a somewhat lame explanation of why the Eternals didn't show up to fight Thanos (which, if you think about it, doesn't actually hold up when All if Revealed), there is nothing tying the Eternals to the MCU. I don't think the story benefited in any way from being set in the MCU. I can't say if the MCU will ultimately benefit from having the Eternals in it, but I'm not seeing it myself.

 All in all, I enjoyed the movie. I think it could have been better and I think it didn't need to be an MCU movie.