Poor by comparison, but still fun to look at.

Rating: 4/10 (7 May 2015)

Messy movie. The first wasn't perfect, but it seemed polished and on-point, with a clear creative vision and a sensible story-arc. This one seemed very disjointed in its writing and even in its editing, particularly surrounding Scarlet Witch scenes and the various dream-sequences she inspires. It was oddly difficult to track the characters during fight-scenes, them seemingly warping all over the place with minimal continuity, especially toward the end. Ultron was a weak villain, his nonchalant attitude and all-too-human foibles/quirks seeming distinctly at odds with his motive. Also, obligatory 9/11 reference was obligatory, not to mention offencive and in extremely poor taste. Every superhero movie these days seems disturbingly obliged to include scenes in which terrified citizens run from advancing clouds of concrete-dust as seen on 9/11, but this one went one step further by actually collapsing a skyscraper in the 'pancake' method to get that result.