On rewatch, not as bad as I remember

Rating: 7/10 (31 October 2018)

I only watched this once, so the rewatch was pretty fresh. I agree with many people that some of the storytelling, humour, the character of Ultron and some characters' motivations are a bit off. But that's something that you can expect from Joss Whedon when he's TOO in control.
For this film, he had many guidelines for what Marvel wanted to see in this sequel and some of the decisions were OK. This movie is not as bad as people say, I quite enjoyed it the second time round.
The criticism that many people would agree on is to introduce the character of Hank Pym as a side character, have HIM create Ultron just like in the comics and the Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon, then when he turns up again in the Ant-Man movie that follows this film, he could redeem himself by handing over his Ant-Man persona to an ex-convict and helping to redeem Scott Lang in response to what Hank did with Ultron. I think that would have worked a lot better.
Overall, this isn't as bad as people say. It has great moments like Hawkeye being given more deeper character development, the introduction of Vision, the fight between Hulk and the Hulkbuster armour and the dynamic between each of the Avengers. The fact that they are starting to get on better really makes me happy and hopeful.