Phew! Not as Bad as The Avengers...

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2015)

I saw it on the opening day, and may I say that just for the Vision (Paul Bettany) alone, I might even decide to watch Age of Ultron a second time :)
Now here's the thing:
I'm so glad Whedon chose to give this movie a much "darker" tone compared to the first movie, which to me was full of roll-eye moments and basically, a joke of a movie.
Age of Ultron, on the other hand, actually has some heart and soul to connect with the audience on a deeper level. Why do I say this? The answer is simple.
In the first movie, all the good guys were pretty much overpowered and so you didn't feel the "need" to root for them. What's worse, the movie was so full of "Look at me, I'm so f***king cool!!!" moments, that the effect it had turned out quite the opposite - A big Yawn.
However, in Age of Ultron, the superheroes were made to suffer greater physically and psychologically (for example, due to Scarlet's haunting mind games). They were portrayed to be a lot more vulnerable, hence the "darker" tone of the movie. But that's also why I could, and perhaps you will, get more emotionally involved with the characters, which is why I enjoyed this movie much more than the first.
It's not even close.
The action? It's mind-blowingly awesome. Seriously. In fact, it would probably take multiple viewings just to fully appreciate some of those sequences and moments (like when Thor hammer-struck the city into dust). It was OMG... so good.
If there are any flaws to Age of Ultron, I would say it's mostly in the subpar dialogue and over-use of cheesy one-liners. But I guess that was to expected.
Overall, I highly recommend watching this movie because unlike the first, this actually has heart. Plus CRAZY good action aside, you might even decide to watch this movie again like I'm going to if you can't get enough of certain characters.
Heck, the Vision was, by far, the best part of the movie.