A Disappointing Sequel

Rating: 5/10 (11 February 2016)

With Deadpool being released tomorrow, I decided to review one of the most disappointing movies Marvel has made in a while. Not bad, just disappointing. This same movie also being one of most hyped up sequels since The Force Awakens.
Now I can't review this properly without spoiling it, so right here I'm putting a spoiler alert. First off, let me just say I did enjoy the first Avengers movie, it wasn't anything amazing but it was entertaining. Also I usually enjoy most movies that Marvel has produced, but this one was surprisingly lacking. Also this might be a pretty long review.
First lets talk about the story. The story isn't really the most important thing in a comic book movie, but there are still some major aspects of the story in this one. The story (even for a comic book movie) is really messy and has many moments that are rushed. They also had to set up other Marvel films coming out later, since thats a thing that Marvel does. The thing is that they had so many movies that they wanted to set up as many films as possible, to the point where it almost overshadowed the plot. For example, there's a part where the group is hit with something that makes them remember past memories, and this branched out into other sub plots that were going on while the main story kinda took a backseat for a little while. Also there was a really forced sorta romance, and this wasn't developed in the first movie so it pretty much came out of nowhere. Another thing is that I thought the new characters were pretty underwhelming. Quick Silver was really distracting since I know he was in X-Men, but is Russian in this. Also the characters have no personality, especially Quick Silver, who also dies, so he was completely pointless. I think probably one of the worst things is that the villain, Ultron, is not really unique in anyway. He's just a regular, lets destroy the world, type villain. Also I thought it was funny how Ultron hated the world after being on the internet for one minute.
Another thing that this movie didn't do all that well was the effects. In the first scene the effects looked awful, they looked rubbery, and wasn't helping that the action scene going on wasn't all that interesting. The effects do improve a little as the film goes on, but I still can't help feeling like almost every scene was filmed on a green screen set. Also the action scenes were.. alright. There wasn't anything notable, they were just.. alright. The battle at the end is cool for the first two minutes and then it just feels like im watching some one play a version of Dynasty Warriors where every enemy looks like the same generic robot. Except without the fun of Dynasty Warriors.
There wasn't anything all that special about this movie. I just felt like another generic comic book movie. Thats the problem with this movie, its very generic. There wasn't any cool cinematography, no great characters, no amazing effects, no memorable moments. And its funny since this was planned to be one of the best sequels ever, but instead of falling flat on it's face, its just very bland. I feel sorry for Joss Whedon since he had to make a movie to satisfy fan's unbelievable requests and also set up like ten more marvel movies. I think he does deserve the break since this seemed to be a lot of ridiculous stress on him.
So in the end, its no terrible, but it had a lot more potential than it delivered, and I think thats the disappointing thing about Age Of Ultron.
Final Score: 5/10