Feels like the Star Wars Prequel all over again

Rating: 7/10 (3 May 2015)

There's a lot of great things in Age of Ultron, James Spader shines in his role as Ultron. He's charismatic, snarky, has that dangerous feeling that you should run for the hills. Elizabeth Olsen has a great range in portraying the Scarlet Witch. The Iron Man vs. the Hulk fight shown in the trailer really delivers. Paul Bettany is great as Vision.
Now the downside:
Ignores several movies in the Marvel cinematic universe entirely ie. Iron Man 3 with Tony destroying the Iron Man suits for Pepper, and Betty Ross for Bruce Banner.
The whole Bruce/Natasha romance was really forced and contrived. This is like the whole Anakin/Padme thing all over again in Star Wars Attack of the Clones. Both of them lacked chemistry. Steve had more chemistry with a log he splits with his bare hands than those two. In the first Avengers movie, the Hulk chases her and she's utterly frightened. In this movie she's all too willing to try to hop in the sack with him. Just dropped in the middle of nowhere. Maybe it was an off-screen thing but it sure didn't show in here. Every time the two have a "romantic" scene, I taste vomit. And her back-story missed the mark. Stating her forced sterilization makes her a monster like Bruce.
Clint's hidden family with an uber-understanding wife. It falls really flat in this movie. She's OK with him going off to far away lands for weeks or months on end nearly getting killed on a daily basis and killing many people. My guess is that she's hoping for that fat life insurance check once he kicks the bucket.
Clint's "peptalk" to Wanda. If that was a peptalk, I do not want to hear him giving an eulogy.
The whole saving civilians took about oh, 10-15 minutes. Really don't need to see the avengers to save every single person on screen.
If you want action, it has plenty of it. Though you might want to fast-forward the parts where Natasha and Bruce are in the same room together or take a bathroom break.