Age of Ultron- forget about Ultron

Rating: 2/10 (11 May 2015)

When I was coming out of the theatre after watching the movie, it didn't seem to have the effect like those of the earlier marvel movies. I mean the feeling like you just had a great experience. I realised later this was because of the character Ultron itself. Unlike in the trailers, he wasn't at all sinister throughout the movie and had very little influence in the shaping of the plot. In fact the twins (Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch) had much more influence in the movie than Ultron.
First of all, it was Scarlet Witch who manipulates Tony Stark's mind into creating Ultron. Then the only fight (in the middle of the movie) Ultron won against the Avengers was with the help of the twins. What is even more pathetic was that when the twins simply decided to leave him after Scarlet Witch finds out about his intentions, he couldn't even think about stopping them. Without the twins it seems Ultron wouldn't have been able to get hold of the vibranium- which he used to create the "city-meteorite" for the climax –and so there wouldn't have been the climax. Even in the fight at the end, the twins themselves seemed to be overpowering Ultron quite easily - forget about the Avengers team. The only thing Ultron was able to accomplish on his own was capturing Natasha. In fact towards the end of the movie I actually felt pity for Ultron. Also since Ultron is an AI, I was imagining he would hack & control JARVIS (rather than corrupting the program as in the movie) and probably control most of iron man's staff (from the trailer, I seriously thought that in the hulk vs "Hulkbuster" fight, Hulkbuster suit would be controlled by Ultron's program). His being AI, I thought the need for his physically dominating the Averngers team wouldn't arise- since there would be no physical limitation to Ultron. He could essentially devise multiple strategies (parallelly) to beat each member of Avengers in their own game. Most of all he didn't seem to have a backup plan for his survival. (the ending seemed to imply that by vision destroying the last of Ultron drones, Ultron was destroyed. I fail to understand why- in spite of Ultron spreading through the internet at the starting –he couldn't think of saving a 'copy' of himself somewhere.)
But still I don't think the portrayal of Ultron in the movie was wrong. He was like a child (since he was created quite recently in the plot) and much to learn yet. So essentially he didn't get enough time to evolve. Compare this to Loki in Avengers 1 (spoiler alert for Avengers-1). Loki had basically shaped the entire story. He made his presence from the very beginning of the movie thereby influencing every single event in the movie, directly- by getting himself involved in the breaking up the team, indirectly- by masterminding the earth invasion by the Chitauri army. Most of all he seemed sinister from the beginning to the end. Even in his defeat when he was subdued he seemed very graceful when he said, "If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now". The fact is that he was able to bring the Avengers to their knees. I think this was possible because Loki got the time to evolve (since Thor-1). I personally think Ultron should have had more chance to evolve like Loki, probably in any of the following ways:
1. Like Loki, if Ultron was introduced in an earlier movie- either a separate movie or in an iron man movie.
2. If "age of Ultron" was made into a 2 part back to back movie (may be with 1 year gap), like they are planning with infinity wars. This way Ultron would get time to evolve.
3. In this movie itself, if they had shown a back story about Ultron (how, why, when etc he was created) and linked with the Avengers somewhat differently. This would make Ultron a mature villain instead of the childlike character he was in this movie.