A good one-time watch but expect less. 3/5

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2015)

THE AVENGERS – AGE OF ULTRON
Apologies for the late review. I guess by now a lot of people must already have watched this mundane instalment from Marvel and must really have become confused as to what to make of the movie. So, let's roll.
I suppose the Marvel studio has really become filthy rich with its cinematic universe collections and since that ball is out of the park, they are busy weaving stories with no coherence whatsoever, to prepare for a grand finale.
No seriously! Someone has to say this. Because in my opinion, this movie was anything but close to its first instalment (notwithstanding the fact that Avengers universe is all about heroics and stunts and fantastic logics). Even judging by those standards, one feels alienated from the movie as it progresses. Well of course! Things are happening in the movie and no one knows why!
The first (known) absurdity was that despite the presence of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, they were not called by their names. And that was because of Marvel's rights issue with 20th Century Fox when they sold the rights of the characters of the mutants to the X-Men franchise. What's more absurd was that they were not even called 'Mutants'. They were 'Enhanced'.
Well even if you ignore that part, this character of Quicksilver doesn't even compare to the one we witnessed in X-Men -Days of Future Past. The humour of the character was just not apparent.
This brings me to the trailer of the movie. All we understood from the trailer was that a very dark portrayal of the story and the characters of Avengers is under-due; that we are going to witness a development which would do some soul searching, and show the grey shade the heroes would have to overcome. But alas! It all came down to nothing but just a little stint of manipulation by a future ally, and the dark visions of the heroes just seemed to be forced upon the viewers.
Not that one should complain about it, as the Avengers was always supposed to be a jolly franchise with great comic timings and humour. And that this movie does not disappoint in. The comic timings and funny punch-lines in the movie have still been retained the same as the first instalment. And that was the best part of the movie. Sure, we were not expecting it as we judged from the allegedly 'dark' trailer of the movie, but well this was the grease which kept the machine running. Extremely hilarious moments with a somewhat apathetic stance (obviously they are heroes!), tickles your senses and leaves you wanting more from that aspect of the movie. Full points to Avengers for that.
So it all comes down to the story. Remember the part where we learn about the 'infinity stones' in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' ? Well the story is basically trying to link that part to the Avengers, and apparently to converge the story lines of all the other movies into some Grand-finale episode (which would obviously feature 'Thanos'). Not to give away the story too much, I should only confess that all the hoolaboola in this movie was basically concentrated upon the "things to come" , and not "things which are present".
So what was all that hoolaboola ? ULTRON and its VISION! The only importance of Ultron in this movie (though it was portrayed to be very important as it was the brain-child of Tony Stark and the code in Loki's sceptre. Ah, just believe it!), was to be a mad program which tries to destroy the earth (once again), and it creates a "Vision" (another character) which is supposedly the saner part of "Ultron" and ultimately sides with the Avengers.
All of this is happening while the Avengers are just fighting amongst themselves. Not that it was not enjoyable, but please, concentrate on the villain already! Anyway, the largest part of the cake goes to the Iron Man Vs Hulk fight. That fight was nasty! If you are not sure whether to go watch this movie or not, just buy the tickets for this specific sequence!
All in all, the story is just straying around with too much speeches and unneeded philosophies (especially from Ultron) and there are literally too many people (from all other movies). The love-angle of Black Widow and #### was appreciable, along with a somewhat tragic end to one of the characters. But the climax was a bit anti- climactic as we expect a lot when it comes to a movie like Avengers, where the stakes are so high.
So all in all,
Humour – 5/5 Action – 3/5 Story – 1/5 Anticipation – 0/5
Verdict – A good one-time watch but expect less. 3/5
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