Avengers Age of Ultron REVIEW by @KillFillm on Instagram

Rating: 8/10 (6 May 2015)

**SPOILER FREE** .
AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON .
Directed by Joss Whedon .
Don't worry, if you haven't seen it, you're safe here. No spoilers. I don't believe in spoilers. You can trust me. So opening night I got to see one of my most anticipated movies of the year, in a packed theater, in 3D, with a Monster energy drink to get my heart racing for this spectacle. After the 73% on RottenTomatoes, and everything I've heard.....I tried to keep expectations low.
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So you guys already know the plot. So short version: Tony Stark creates Ultron for good. For an AI protector of our world. The next step in evolution. Plan backfires...Age of Ultron. After everything I heard, I wasn't expecting it to live up to the first, and I was fine with that. Well it hooked me from the very beginning this time, we start out with the Avengers right in action, IN THE SNOW! Finally got out of New York and had a change of scenery. That's something I've been wanting to see and it was awesome. Throughout the amazing looking action the jokes were there, and I believe this one might be funnier than the first. Especially with a certain joke about 'cursing' that goes on throughout the movie. Its like an Avengers inside joke and every time it gets brought back up its even more hilarious.
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Now the addition of Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver I was nervous about. Mainly with Quicksilver because I'm not the biggest Aaron Taylor-Johnson fan, and I think he was the sore-point of Godzilla. Now while he doesn't come close to the awesomeness that was Evan Peters's Quicksilver from Days of Future Past, to my surprise I did like him. I really liked Scarlett Witch. Yes, the Russian accents were a bit weird, but only for a moment then you're okay with it. What Scarlett Witch did, how she uses her mind control, and taps into people's minds and we get some psychological traumatic scenes for some of our characters. She was a great addition to this movie. There's more characters in this than any Marvel movie ever, and they are juggled perfectly. That's one of the things I didn't like about the first one. Some characters led the show while others faded into the background. I didn't care a bit for Hawkeye in the first movie cause he got zero character time. In Age of Ultron, I can say Hawkeye was my favorite character in the whole movie and I would say was given the most character time. Not only do we find out more about him, but we learn about his personal life. That's was phenomenal for this movie. It was the perfect blend of Action, Comedy, and Drama. We spent more time with the Avengers OUT of their costumes than ever. My favorite scene in the whole movie was a party at Stark Tower with all them just hanging out and conversating.
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In closing, YES. Hulk vs Hulk Buster was one of the most beautiful fights I've ever witnessed in a theater. ULTRON, great villain. Menacing, evil, and very funny. He's a likable villain and you just wanna hear him talk cause his voice is awesome and he is awesome. Out of him and Loki, I might like Loki a tad bit better....but just a bit. Vision, I wish he was a surprise and not spoiled in the trailer....but without saying much and avoiding spoil-age, Vision is greatness. Originally Age of Ultron was 3hrs31mins and got shortened to 2hrs22mins, and I feel like we needed some of that. I think Ultron needed more of an origin story because he was just sort of* poof!* I'm hear to destroy. I wished he had more reasoning explained in his origin. My only other gripe is that the Hulk/Black Widow romance felt a bit, rushed and not believable and I just feel it could've been done more natural instead of so sudden and in your face.
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Now here's the thing, I was actually planning to be hard on this movie. I didn't want my inner fanboyism to effect my grade, so it won't. There were those two things that I feel would've been better in the original 3hr31min cut. Nonetheless, the theater experience was incredible and it was the most fun I had watching a film in theaters in YEARS. It surpassed my expectations by a mile and just completely blew me away. Not only will I say that I liked this one more than the first, but it might just be my favorite Marvel film yet.
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Age of Ultron gets an: A .
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