entertaining, but shallow

Rating: 7/10 (24 April 2015)

Avengers: Age of Ultron had a lot to live up to after the success of Avengers Assemble, Captain America: Winter Soldier and most recently Guardians of the Galaxy. I went into it with high hopes and was super excited after watching the trailers.
In short, i didn't feel it lived up to expectations. I didn't walk out of the movie thinking about any particular scenes or thinking to myself "that was amazing, i want to see it again".
I think the problem was the story and the character building. There was so much action etc going on in the majority of the movie that it left a lot to be desired. Prime example is the 'romance' between Bruce Banner and Black Widow, which felt like a forced afterthought, thrown in for the sake of it to try and make us care about them more. The acting sequences in this movie could probably have been wrapped in a week or two, with the rest just being post production and special effects. i didn't see the movie in 3d because i didn't care about these exact things.
On the plus side, the action was decent so it was by all means an entertaining movie and it was cool to see a few new faces with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
James Spader did a good job representing a very menacing voice for Ultron and the Vision was pretty cool also; but again i felt like these characters needed more room to develop.
In conclusion the movie felt like it made similar mistakes to Spider-man 3, with so much crammed in and the character relationships and primary plot were very thin. This is worth seeing at the cinema just the once, and I may even buy it on Blu-ray for the sake of completing a collection, but it doesn't come close to the awesome Guardians of the Galaxy which was probably the best Marvel movie so far.