A fine way to spend an evening.

Rating: 9/10 (10 June 2015)

Look. It's not going to win any Oscars. Unless they're for special effects, because they were actually pretty good. But it's an action movie and it ties in well with the others so far.
Characters have already been developed over the earlier films (and some of the TV shows as well) in general, though the few new ones who get introduced are a tiny bit shallow. Particularly Ultron, who could have been so much more sinister. I rather hoped he'd have that subtle menace of HAL...but this is Marvel and Stan Lee doesn't do subtle. Neither, it would seem, does Joss Whedon. Which is fair enough.
I agree with one of the other reviewers that the vaguely romantic back story doesn't work without having a lot more attention, and I also agree that some of the peripheral characters were either wasted of a distraction.
But you know what? I sat down at the beginning and then it was over. It certainly didn't drag and I certainly didn't feel as though I'd been ripped off. A damn' fine way to spend an evening, in fact.