I Hate Flashbacks...

Rating: 3/10 (12 March 2016)

This film is a mess of convoluted narratives, uncoordinated action, & protracted character development for far too many characters.
A film should tell one story. But amongst all the technological prattle we have several story details which breaks up the movie into sections which no one single audience bracket can appreciate.
This film has all the aspects I hate in bad writing. An enemy you can't see, an enemy with psychic powers (Batman & Robin pheromone dust?) which breaks up the film's momentum, flashbacks, good guys fighting each other, taking the heroes weapons away, the forced love affair, meeting the cool guy's pregnant wife & kids, girl power, a villain that keeps regenerating, & a new hero that overshadows the rest.
The action is so disconnected. Take the fight with Thor at the end. They start fighting, you want to see this fight AND.... Cut to another scene. It takes about 4 minutes during the finalé to come back to this scene. And the Hulk you forget is there! The first avengers were all working together, & you got a real sense of timely continuity during the battle.
You want to see the heroes face a new enemy, gear up with new tools, & show this bad guy who's boss! That's what the story needed to be! But you're hardly rooting for them to save the day at the end because apart from the fact you're so bored by then, you've lost all belief in them. They squabble all the way through, they let mere memories defeat them, & you never feel a desire for these cookie cutter robots to get destroyed by them. It's like those droids from the Star Wars Prequels all over.
The Avengers were assembled to protect mankind. This worked in the first film. In this film? Humanity just gets in the way of their CGI Battles. They ppss everyone off, destroy everything, not a peep out of the government, & kill all the robots that they themselves were responsible for creating.. Yay.. erm.. Hooray? What a mess this film is.
Creativity needs freedom. I guess the writer was stifled were creativity was concerned.