Copy of the first film

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2015)

The story of the film is tightly knotted up with the rest of the Marvel cinematic universe, similar to that of the first Avengers movie the majority of the events that happen within it have major links to many previous films. Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: The Dark World and of course Avengers Assemble are the most important films.
It is amazing to look at the sheer amount of similarities between the first and second Avengers story, it's like for some parts they've just used the first films as a template. The story first begins to develop from when Ultron is actually created, or at least that is when it first begins to get semi-interesting. Ultron begins to root itself into the Iron Man's Iron Legion army and slowly gains power throughout the film towards the climaxing final action fight at the end. About an hour into the film the tensions start rising in the group as a new supper- villain arises that plays with their minds, almost to the point of the group going their own ways and disbanding, just to be thwarted by the same old 'Our world needs us' speech. Starting to see any similarities yet? It just seems like an exceptionally rigid storyline that is mundane and just been ripped off from another movie.
Action Avengers Assemble was one of the best, if not the best film I have seen for the purposes of action and Age Of Ultron in many cases does not fail to match these standards. The film opens up with my favorite type of shot that was used exquisitely in the first movie, an extremely long action shot showing us teamwork and single abilities alike, it was truly amazing. From long shots of an extremely one sided fight to a long action shot of possibly the best fight sequence I have seen in any Marvel film to-date: Hulk Vs Iron Man's anti-hulk suit thing, which for the record I am very disappointed that this didn't show up again later on in the film.
All of this being said I do feel like many of the action sequences lack the overall awesomeness that the first movie clung to like child to its mother. Thinking it through for a while I finally came to the conclusion that it was due to the lack of team shots/sequences through the film that made the said sequences slightly disappointing. IN many cases such as the final fight scene , the Avengers are split up throughout a town, fighting in their own area and the camera would transition from shot to shot of each one of them fighting their bit. I just found scenes like this very dull and extremely hard to describe to someone, I just could feel the team as much as I could in Assemble.
To round it up I think that Age of Ultron is an extremely good attempt at recreating Avengers Assemble but in many cases it tries to be it's predecessor too much. The action is brilliant throughout but I was disappointed that it did not live up to the standards that Avengers Assemble created. 7/10 Feel free to post about anything that I may have missed or your own personal opinion of the film. A more detailed personal review: http://timmonsreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2015/ 04/avengers-age-of-ultron-film- review.html?m=1