Lacks Emotional Drive

Rating: 7/10 (8 May 2015)

I was honestly disappointed by this movie. It felt like a mediocre filler-in and it utterly lacked taste and the emotional picture and innate development present in the first Iron "Men", where Tony was captured for so long in a cave and came back a changed man; in the first Captain America, which took us back in time to the late 1930s and early 1940s and something was lost (love) that could never again be regained due to the time parting them; and in Guardians of the Galaxy, with the death of the mother and the intrigue of who's his father.
This movie (and so it seems from the trailer of Ant Man) was emotionally devoid, though with mediocre to good jokes (the hammer lifting-thing). What I and hopefully many other fans seem to be hoping for is something deeper than hour-long suspense, empty talk of freedom, and protection of Earth - for what is there to protect if nobody feels? What is there to be screaming about if the spark is missing? We need something where the people of the Earth are no longer the innocent and helpless children waiting to be saved by the Avengers as now portrayed, but grassroots, which aid one another and the Avengers by cooperation. We need that silent shot of the ravaging nature of war and destruction; and the deafening picture of the mother sacrificing her life for her child. There's no saving everyone, and it's about time that Marvel and the Avengers learn this cruel fact of life because in turn this movie franchise will turn into a mere farce.
Sure, it's a superhero movie, but it lacks the subtlety, reality and naturalness that evoke the truly good movies (Finding Nemo is a great example).