Avengers: Age of Ultron is a great film that is just missing half an hour from the beginning...

Rating: 8/10 (2 May 2015)

Avengers: Age of Ultron is a great film that is just missing half an hour from the beginning. The action scenes were, as always, brilliant, the dialogue was hilarious and there really were some emotional scenes in this film. However I feel that some of the story lines were either rushed or came out of nowhere. One of the main ones was the hulk/black widow romance. Now don't get me wrong I actually quite like this couple but we went from them having a pretty normal (or as normal as can be with the avengers) relationship to them pretty much being a full on couple, there was no in between. Also the hydra base at the beginning was a bit unexplained. My other issue with this film was Ultron. Based on the trailers I expected a really dark, different villain, but instead Ultron was funny and more human than I expected for a robot, even though he is based off Tony Stark. This is actually a really funny film, I was laughing out loud at several points in the cinema, Hawkeye, especially is brilliant and is now one of my favourite avengers but Ultron having humorous dialogue felt like a little too much, he should have been darker to balance out the humour of the avengers themselves. I also felt like the film makers rushed into his whole 'I'm going to murder humanity' mind set as he is basically created and 5 minutes later ready to cause global extinction. Despite these criticisms I really enjoyed this film and Joss Whedon does not fail to keep the audience engaged. Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver make great additions to the team, Vision is awesome and we get to see more of what motivates the avengers than ever before. Overall I think Marvell did a good job but we could have done with seeing a bit more which is again, probably a good thing!