Eternals is undoubtedly epic, but that unfortunately applies definitionally more than substantively.
Marvel Studios’ latest gambit follows the Eternals, a race of beings imbued with massive cosmic energy and sent to Earth to protect humans from a monstrous race of alien predators, the Deviants. Serving as guardians and shepherds, the Eternals guide humanity through thousands of years of cultural and technological advancement and eradicate the Deviant threat along the way. Frustration about humanity’s flaws (and an imperative not to interfere with human-on-human conflict) drive the group apart, but when the Deviants return, the surrogate family comes together to save the world and the people they’ve come to love.
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