Review of The Avengers (2012) by Shaheer N — 20 Apr 2015

Wow three years on and this film is still great. The avengers is a fantastic film and one of the best Marvel movies, easily in the top 5. Now I'm not going to lie the Avengers is not as perfect as when I first saw it in the cinema, after seeing quite a few more times the problems in this movie are starting to become more obvious however that doesn't ruin this great movie.

One of the best things about the movie is the cast. I mean look at this cast Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Cobie Smulders and Clark Gregg.

Everyone is great in the movie and there isn't a bad peformance is thee whole film. All the characters are handled very well except for two, unfortunately Hawkeye is very underutilized and Captain America is really badly handled, even his costume is terrible in the movie it's just a big shame as movies like Captain America the Winter Soldier prove what a badass he can be but in this movie he's really badly handled.

Luckily though Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow and especially Hulk are all handled brilliantly. The Shield regulars, Nick Fury, Maria Hill and Agent Coulson are all fantastic. Loki is a great villain, he's not the most threatening but he's absolutely brilliant, Tom Hiddleston makes him a charming villain and he has some good jokes.

Speaking of which the humour in this movie is great and while it might not be as funny as Guardians of the Galaxy it's still hilarious. The action in the film is also brilliant, especially the final action sequence which is just fantastic and a visual treat, I also love seeing the Avengers all work together and it's just tones of fun.

Joss Whedon also brilliantly directs them movie and it's a shame he won't be directing any more Avengers movies after Age of Ultron. While this film is absolutely brilliant it unfortunately does have some rather big problems that stop this being a perfect movie.

Probably the biggest and most common problem with the film is the first half and hour is actually pretty bad. It goes on to long and to be honest it's very underwhelming. Another big problem is that even though I do love the end action scene the Chitari are actually a terrible army, they are very unthreatening and and we never actually see them kill anybody so it makes them seem really terrible, they also did extremely easy.

One personal problem I have with this movie is actually more to do with the Marvel series as a whole. Spoiler Alert the motivation for the Avengers to all team together and fight the Chitari is because Loki kills Agent Coulson, this scene is actually very well done and it's very sad to see such a likeable character die.

However Agents of Shield came out and now Coulson is alive, why would they do that. You had a very sad death that proved Loki could be evil and that the series is fine with killing off main characters however now he's alive, why couldn't they have just based the show off of Maria Hill.

But problems aside this is a fantastic movie with great acting, great action, great humour and great music. I would say see it but who hasn't. A.