A redundant litany of comic book clichés.

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 2015)

Seriously, the story progression is cut from the same mold as the first Avengers. Avengers assemble! Avengers fight! Avengers brood over their issues...bad guy sows dissension...Hulk goes berserk...Avengers fight each other...Avengers get back together and save the day. And Tony Stark flies into a hole in the sky. The same personal issues get rehashed, the supposedly super-intelligent villain is laughably inept, the whole story is absurdly contrived and the characters lack any clear sense of purpose. Once again, we have a comic book movie that suffers from writers trying to cram years' worth of back story into a 2 hour film, the result being a mind-numbing series of fights and explosions punctuated by lame quips and tedious attempts at introspection. Maybe Ultron had it right - the Avengers, and indeed the whole superhero genre, need to be destroyed in order to be saved.