Age of LOLtron

Rating: 7/10 (25 April 2015)

With the strength of the Winter Soldier, Marvel has outed itself as being capable of producing a film to compete with the Dark Knight. So the direction of the Avengers is a marker to how they see the war against the DCU panning out.
Essentially, Age of Ultron is a great piece of entertainment, but the threads of it's own destruction are built in. As the main artery for new characters, this film runs out of time to really introduce them. We get the one liners, the strong moments between the existing cast but in the background the mechanics of the plot cycle on with little explanation.
The casual breaking of cannon (no spoilers here) does not seem to be done to create anything stronger - instead all the new characters are somewhat malformed. Ultron has the humour of Stark, but the enemy doesn't really add anything new to deal with. As the entertainment explodes onto the screen, the films franchise implodes.