An entertaining popcorn movie

Rating: 6/10 (9 August 2015)

Age of Ultron is a long waited sequel after the tremendous success of the Avengers in 2012. It is a fun movie to kick start the summer holiday season and I admire Joss Whedon's effort in putting the team back together. Instead of going through what's good about this film, I would like to point out several problems the film suffered from.
Spoiler ahead..
The film started off with the Avengers going after Loki's scepter which was in the Hydra's possession, pretty much where we were left off from Cap 2's post credit scene. We see Iron Man and Iron Legion back in action with little to no explanation as to why, completely ignoring the consequence of Iron Man 3 which was disappointing.. Thor and Hawkeye are just there and the weirdness between the Hulk and Black Widow.. If any of us who watched Cap 2, it would make better sense if it was between Cap and Black Widow.. All the hype built on Strucker but he was defeated by Cap in 10 seconds and killed off-screen..
Skipped right to the party scene where all the supporting characters come together which was great! James Rhodes aka War Machine was there to discuss the threat of Ultron with the rest of the team but that was it.. You don't see him again until the third act where apparently he's Nick Fury's big gun!? Again here, no mentioned why he changed back from Iron Patriot to War Machine and since when the new Shield and US air-force are working together?
We can get to see Ultron Mark 1 built from the scraps of Iron Legion but after a brief battle, it evolved to Ultron Prime right away.. it is disappointing as Ultron is meant to be a robot/ artificial intelligence which is continuously evolving..
We were then given the back story of Hawkeye as he was pretty much a brainwashed zombie from the first film and with no ever mention where he was in the whole of phase 2.. Thor went off to find out about his hallucination and in the end just to justify the existence of Thor 2, telling us that Aether is one of the infinity stone and making a link with the Guardians of the Galaxy..
The Vision supposedly the all-powerful android is underused in the final act and was just there to save Scarlet Witch from the explosion.. Quicksilver is there so they could kill him off without crossing off any of the core team Finally the Nick Fury shows up with the Helicarrier out of nowhere to evacuate civilians? How could they have hidden this without the knowledge of Hydra (assuming not everyone has watched Agents of Shield)..
In the end, Age of Ultron has its great and bad moment but it is definitely a good popcorn movie. It is a sequel to the 2012 Avengers rather than the sequel to the Phase 2 movies(IM3, Thor 2 and Cap 2) as I previously assumed ..