Review of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) by Mathodus — 09 May 2015

Avengers: Age of Ultron has three critical issues which makes it a mediocre, superhero summer blockbuster:

1) Way too many characters.

2) Too much action.

3) Not enough cohesive plot/story.

Audiences, both movie-lovers and comic geeks,Avengers: Age of Ultron has three critical issues which makes it a mediocre, superhero summer blockbuster:

1) Way too many characters.

2) Too much action.

3) Not enough cohesive plot/story.

Audiences, both movie-lovers and comic geeks, anticipated a well-written, well-directed, well-developed film that both established a great story and a great installment in the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe that interconnected the efforts of talented filmmakers to adapt the many heroes and their adventures from Marvel Comics.

Instead, what we got was a two and a half hour lukewarm superhero action movie that, in many aspects, did not live up to its predecessor. To be fair, the film did have several entertaining moments from its comedy to its thrill, yet given how the movie attempted to stuff itself full of one-dimensional, cameo-esque performances, and how the action scenes made you forget the already miniscule plot, it's no wonder how critics and fanboys disapprove the movie.

Director Joss Whedon intended to make the film an hour longer in order to fit more story with the mass of characters, and that, in retrospect, would have been a good solution to the film's several issues, but be honest, who would go see a superhero blockbuster as long as Lawrence of Arabia? Let's just prey that Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and 2 is large enough to fit characters from all three phases of the MCU.