Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are back to save the world yet again in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”
Marvel’s powerhouse franchise delivered another hit to start off the blockbuster summer campaign with the same formula seen in its predecessor “The Avengers.” This is director Joss Whedon’s farewell to the Avengers franchise as this is the last Avenger movie he is directing and he didn’t disappoint.
With a star-studded cast leading the way, including Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo, “Avengers: Age of Ultron” captures and mesmerizes the audience with beautiful cinematography, epic action sequences and a few jokes along the way.
The movie begins with the Avengers attacking a enemy Hydra base trying to acquire Thor’s (Hemsworth) Asgardian weaponry. The task was relatively simple until new individuals appeared against the Avengers.
Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olson) are the super twins that Hydra used against the team. Quicksliver is a speedster and Scarlet Witch has the power to change perception with her physic abilities.
After recovering the Asgardian weaponry, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner decided to build a defense program that could finally let the Avengers sit on the sidelines and would relieve them of the duty of protecting earth.
Thus the Ultron Project was born. Unfortunately, the artificial intelligence they created turned on them and decided that humans weren’t necessary to earth’s survival.
Ultron (voiced by James Spader) uses the twins to help him turn the Avengers team against each other which was very similar to what Loki did in the first ‘Avengers’ movie. Ultron’s end game was to completely eradicate the human race.
The narrative of the movie was a bit draggy and dull at some points of the movie with no flow whatsoever. For example, Black Widow (Johansson) having flashbacks of her old training and how she became a killer was not needed and showed too much exposition.
There was also a lot of heavy debate from comic book purists on how this movie showed the birth of Ultron as being created by Iron Man and the Hulk rather then Ant Man and Iron Man from the original text. Although, it wasn’t accurate to the original they made it work.
The influx of comedic quips also doubled in the sequel which was annoying and unneeded for the majority of the movie. Only a few scenes were truly comedic like when Vision (Paul Bettany) picked up Thor’s hammer.
That was truly a golden comedic moment in the movie.
Marvel is very good at incorporating teasers for upcoming movies in their projects and there were no shortages in “Age of Ultron” as many Easter eggs connected to future Marvel projects.
Whedon did a very good creating the overall picture of what this movie does for the franchise as well as other franchises that may spinoff the Avengers in the near future.
In “Age of Ultron” more heroes are revealed to the Marvel Universe and the world will have to wait until the Avengers assemble again once more to save the world.
