Explosive action, unconvincing storyline

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2015)

This movie had an interesting premise, and I was eager to see it. I always like movies toying with artificial intelligence, and until now, every such movie was a disappointment in at least one aspect: artificial intelligence is not that intelligent. Avengers: Age of Ultron has the same problem. Ultron wants to clean the Earth of people, and to do so, it finds an extremely complicated method: raise a city up in the atmosphere, and then leave it fall, so that it would simulate a meteorite.
The movie starts with the Avengers team fighting to get the sceptre used by Loki in the previous Avengers movie. Once they find it, Thor decides to stay three more days to celebrate (??). In these days Stark and the Hulk (in human form) study the scepter, and try to make Jarvis communicate with the "artificial intelligence" within the sceptre. Of course, things go wrong, and Ultron comes to life, with the purpose of keeping the Earth safe. The problem is that the only way it sees this possible is to kill everybody.
The movie is full with really absurd stuff. I know it's cool to fight in the city and blow up buildings, but whoever did this in real life would not be left to do it again (killing hundreds/thousands of people every time). Supposedly, all the Ultron robots are made from the strongest metal known on Earth, but this does not stop our heroes from beating them and ripping them up with bare hands and kicks. In some scenes, they seem like ripping plastic... Plus, they never get hurt, which would be fine by me, if they showed they had some superior tactics, not just bruteforcing through the crowd of robots.
There were lots of surprises along the way: the appearance of Ultron, the red fighter, the plan with the city. Still, in the end you are left with another story with the same ending. The Avengers were overwhelmed, but they manage to beat up all the bad guys, while saving (almost) all the people.
There are many questions: why choose such a complicated method to erase mankind, when Ultron could get into any computer he wanted, thus into any house/computer/mobile phone? Why did the red guy (which seems extremely strong) not kill Ultron from their first encounter? He seemed he had the necessary juice... And again, the main thing that bothered me: why is always artificial intelligence portrayed as not so intelligent?