Age of Ultron, the first big mistake from Marvel.

Rating: 6/10 (26 April 2015)

This review contains spoilers!
I was excited for this film. I don't love the first Avengers movie but it was really good, and the trailers for this one had me pumped. It seemed like a darker movie, with a strong villain. But we were mislead to believe that.
Age of Ultron contains so much content, and the movie suffers because of it. You can't find the read thread that should be the pillar of this film. Instead, it's just packed with unnecessary scenes that sidetrack the audience.
The movie opens with the Avengers attacking a Hydra base under the command of baron Von Strucker. If you see this film in 3D like I did, you will notice how "off" the action looks. They get inside the base and retrieve Loki's weapon from the first movie. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are also inside the base ( working for the baron) and Scarlet Witch works her magic on Stark, but the job gets done.
Once back in Stark Tower the team celebrates with a party, and this is when we are introduced to a passion project Tony has. It's called Ultron, and it's a peacekeeping program. Jarvis can't get the work done to launch it, so Tony and Bruce use Loki's weapon to get the job done. This is typical comic-book movie science right here.
Ultron comes to life, but he is not what they expected. His focus is saving the world, but he believes that the population must die in order to do that. So he sends a couple of robots on the team and flee.
The rest of the movie is just a big mix of everything, sure there are some good scenes, like the fight between the Hulk and the Hulk-buster, but the majority of the film makes little sense, and it doesn't feel like an Avengers movie. The humor is not as good and character development is lacking, and when there is development it's bad, like the forced love drama between Black Widow and Banner. Ultron is a pretty weak villain, he has some good jokes but he never feels dangerous enough. The third act is just an overload of CGI and despite the fact that it's supposed to be the climax of the movie it just feels tiresome and drawn out.
However, something that stands out to me is Hawkeye. He was poorly used in the first one but he really gets to shine in Age of Ultron. But this film contains more negatives than positives for me.
The director has admitted to feeling tired during the process of this movie, and sadly you can tell when you watch it. This movie is bad by Marvels high standards. It will still make a lot of money, but if you are a person that likes to analyze movies and can separate good from bad ones you wont be pleased by this one, sadly.