My hopes have been crushed

Rating: 5/10 (2 May 2015)

Spoilers!
I was so disappointed with Age of Ultron. As a hardcore fan of everything superhero related, I was simply appalled by the movie. Don't get me wrong the action was phenomenal, who doesn't love watching your favourite superheroes team up and beat the bad guy? Unfortunately with a subpar plot and one too many puns, the story becomes increasingly ridiculous as you sit there wondering whats so good about this movie.
The first thing that will stand out is the fact that Black Widow and Bruce Banner are a thing. If you don't recall from the first avengers, Hawkeye and Black Widow had a very strong connection that went past friendship. That seemed to have been forgotten in this movie because randomly Hawkeye has a family with a wife, two kids and another one on the way. What? Black Widow is even willing to run away with Bruce and skip out on the fight with Ultron. Say what? Since when has Widow ever wanted to miss a fight? Clearly something's wrong and it's more than love.
Secondly, what was the point of Nick Fury? He shows up to give some sort of empowering speech to Tony that'll give him the confidence to go destroy Ultron and points out Widows and Banners relationship. Where does he find all the people to run the helicarrier and how does he get it working so fast? Did he know that Ultron was going to lift an entire city off the ground? Where were those mini helicarriers in the first movie? That would've been helpful during the battle of New York.
Thirdly, since when can super villains sneak up on everyone? Scarlett Witch was able to mind control everyone present in the old ship except for Hawkeye of all people? Not even Captian America who can somehow destroy an Ultron bot with one punch without even turning around got mind controlled by her. Even Thor got hit. What was the purpose of seeing everyone's fears and regrets? Speaking of which, how come Thor can suddenly see into the future by swimming in a magic pond and how come the Doctor knows where it is?
One of the things that will bother me to no end is that fact that Iron Man beat Hulk in a one on one battle. There is no way in any possible circumstance that Iron Man can beat Hulk. Why couldn't hulk rip tony out of the suit? If all it takes to subdue the Hulk is to beat him up, why bother calming him down? The angrier Hulk is, the stronger he gets but I guess that doesn't apply in these movies.
I'm not even going to talk about Vision lifting Thor's hammer.
Finally, the one thing that makes this movie worse than the original is the fact that it didn't seem as world threatening as the first movie. Ultrons plan was to lift up a whole city and throw it back down to earth. Loki planned in invading the earth and had a whole army to do it. The only reason why the Avengers won there was because Iron Man threw a nuke at them. Not once was there a point where I felt like the Avengers was going to lose. Ultron wasn't a challenge for them, I doubt they needed all the Avengers to beat him. They never really had a down moment and all their arguments were pointless. I'd feel stupid too if I got beaten by two kids with no fighting experience.
There were barely any awe inspiring, edge of the seat moments where I thought "wow I can't believe this is happening!" Not to mention they defeated Ultron way too easily. Why even introduce Quicksilver and portray him as an important character if he's just going to be killed at the end?
Overall, Age of Ultron is a good movie if you're into all the flashy action and CGI but it's story is filled with plot holes and plain nonsense. Hopefully the next Avengers movie will be better but I'm not getting my hopes up.