A Visual feast-nothing more

Rating: 6/10 (4 May 2015)

All those here who are bothering to examine every detail of this film are really wasting their time. It's perfectly clear by now that these Super-hero films are just a visual feast which provide entertainment for a couple of hours and then are soon forgotten. The cinematic equivalent of junk-food. The CGI in this film is breath-taking, the fight scenes go on endlessly and it all sweeps along at a (mostly) frantic pace. That's all there is to it. The plot has so many holes that several sky-carriers could fit through, the actors know they are NOT performing Shakespeare, and the producers are too busy counting the money that's coming in to bother anyway. And there you go. Those who love this kind of thing will probably be happy-those that hate it will hate this too. To properly enjoy it you must dis-engage your brain and let it wash over you. And that's exactly what it does.
Just as a comparison-in the 1950s audiences flocked to see pulp sci-fi flicks, such as "Them!"(about giant spiders), "The Blob" (about a giant blob!) and many others. They were a distraction, to take people's minds off the serious things that were happening in the world. And they were meant to be viewed on that level. There were, admittedly, a few gems along the way, such as, "The day the earth stood still", "War of the worlds", "Forbidden Planet" and "invasion of the body-snatchers". These films had a fair amount of intelligence to them-but they were more the exception really. It was just about entertainment. Today's equivalent are these Superhero films. Anyone watching them knows exactly what to expect, or should do by now considering there have been 3 Iron Man films, 2 Thor and 2 Captain America films. This film is hardly going to deviate from those by being an intimate study in human relationships! No -it's big, loud and meant to be viewed in good weather! So enjoy it for what it is, just don't expect anything more. For those that do then this film is really not for you and you should go and watch something else.