A cgi fest with a messy plot and uninterested actors.

Rating: 4/10 (21 August 2015)

I absolutely hate CGI that is so obviously CGI.
It makes live action look like a cartoon. CGI only works when it's so subtle you don't notice it. The very first scene is an action one with so much CGI it may as well be animated. This utterly sets the bar so low as to be limboing for me. It didn't get any better as it went along either. A real shame as previous Avengers efforts were much better.
The plot was contrived to the Nth degree and the acting was phoned in. The actors looked like they wanted to be anywhere but where they were.
I appreciate that any superhero film requires a degree of suspension of reality but equally it also needs a degree of reality to ground it. Failure to adhere to that grounding leaves you with a live action cartoon, which is what we have here. It simply doesn't work.
Please, please, please abandon the over use of CGI and make films that rely on plot, acting and effects you don't realise are effects.