Weakest Marvel film of the series

Rating: 6/10 (2 May 2015)

There was bound to be a time when the masters at Marvel would make a misstep and Avengers: Age of Ultron is that disappointing moment.
We at Archon Reviews like to keep our reviews as "clean" as possible. Avengers: Age of Ultron leads us to be forced to utilize a term that breaks that rule. Joss Whedon's Age of Ultron is a clusterf#$k of massive proportions.
It was inevitable, and Age of Ultron is proof that even the minds at Marvel Entertainment are not perfect. And Joss Whedon most of all, bites off significantly more than he can handle.
As a story, Age of Ultron feels light years ahead of where the previous Marvel films left off, like a horror movie on its eighth installment. Age of Ultron's plot is convoluted and the entire film lacks the structure of a story with intent that propels itself into being made into a film.
We propel forward to a time when Tony Stark has jump started a peacekeeping programming using androids and state of the art computer programming. Then we jump forward again as the group known as the Avengers realize an entity in the form of Stark's unintentionally created Artificial Intelligence seeks to malevolently target Earth. Of course, our superheros will fight with everything they have to save the world.
Everything about Age of Ultron is forced. From the unnecessarily complicated, multi-layered story, the side characters and the newly manufactured characters that nonchalantly get introduced. Age of Ultron feels dull and lifeless, a blockbuster to cash in on the Marvel name. This fate is completely unlike the caliber of material we Marvel fans are accustomed to and typically resigned to Michael Bay concoctions. Marvel: you are better than this.
Age of Ultron is tired and even the actors appear to have difficulty uttering the dialogue. Those familiar faces from the previous films still do an adequate job but newcomers like Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are laughably inferior. Both the acting, diction and casting director should be fired from the next Avengers film, if there even is one. There are comedic moments in the film, but unlike the initial Avengers film, feel gimmicky and are painfully overused.
I understand that at this point in the Marvel franchise, the filmmakers had a huge task in front of them. Unfortunately, they fail and the film produced for Marvel lovers is a disappointment. And this is not coming from the vapid whining of a superfan.
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