Totally forgettable

Rating: 4/10 (26 May 2015)

I saw this film in 4DX and whilst the 4DX effects were great and got you involved in the action in places the film itself eventually is totally forgettable. I even started to doze off in the middle of the film because everything became so tedious and you just could not feel involved in the story.
A huge story isn't necessary I think to make a great film. For example Terminator 2 and Mad Max Fury Road in essence have very simple basic stories (mostly a chase in both these films), but yet these two films are very watchable and you feel involved with what is going on and there is a sense of development within the characters' motivation . Nothing like that happens here in this mundane sequel to Avengers Assemble. What you know at the end is exactly the same as at the beginning, What is the point? Our heroes are amazing and no matter how much chaos Tony Stark indirectly inflicts, he's awesome, cool, drives an amazing car and has a great lifestyle. His beautiful girlfriend is absent from this film but he's too cool to care probably. Iron Man 3 got equally stupid and pointless.
Ultron is created by Tony Stark and straight away turns on the super heroes. This is quite stupid and makes a mockery of Tony Stark and Ultron. James Spader is only here in voice and that is a real shame. Perhaps a more cheesy story of a crazy nut-case professor turning himself into a powerful robot would have worked better. It certainly would have made more sense as Tony Stark is totally not held accountable for his insane and quite criminal actions it seems.
Two new characters are introduced and quickly switch from helping out Ultron to joining the Avengers club. We don't have enough good guys already it seems.
To defeat Ultron eventually Tony Stark creates another being from Loki's Sceptre. Tony doesn't learn does he, as obviously this one will really help out right? Now another character is introduced; Vision, yes another good guy. Awful humor and awful dialogue follow ("I was born yesterday" and Vision can pick up Thor's hammer no problem etc).
Ultron is defeated by destroying his robot army. It seems Ultron existing outside the physical form, in the internet is forgotten about. Why? Will he come back?
Also why is this film called Age of Ultron when everything plays out in a few days?
The heroes never faced any real danger it seems, just some weird dream states which was not really explored or used by Ultron effectively (the trailer really made you believe Iron Man turned on the Hulk because of Ultron's supposedly Puppets on Sting ability or "destroying them from the inside out" and not because of some silly argument or over reacting from Hulk). The need to save the humans in the city that was lifted up by Ultron was simply not executed well. I really could not have cared less about any individual in the film. It reminded me so much of Man of Steel which has similar problems. There just comes a time when you start to think "everyone can just die and then I can leave the cinema. What does it matter?"
Great effects, weak story (or at least weak motivation and no character development), no urge or justification to anything that happened and nothing to warrant this sequel in the first place all equate to a totally forgettable film. The actors all seem to deliver their lines very statically. It was more like a play than a real movie in places (i.e. you had to imagine more danger than there was perhaps). Compare this to the insane action in Mad Max Fury Road where it really seems Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy are getting hurt and are close to death.
Age of Ultron is just not good enough to justify a re-watch or let alone owning the film on any media form. It would have been much better to have watched the first outing of the Avengers again in the cinema with the 4DX effects. A complete Marvel U-turn from Guardians of the Galaxy greatness I think.