Another overrated and utterly forgettable American movie

Rating: 1/10 (20 May 2015)

I'm really disappointed to see how highly rated this movie is. There was a time when great movies achieved that status by presenting a new perspective of life, by feeding you new thoughts and emotions, by showing the limits of human condition.
Movies used (or at least tried) to resemble good books. Not anymore it seems. Now it has become over the top action with shallow characters (superheroes in a nutshell), who have little to do with our lives. Sheer entertainment is acceptable, but rating it as a masterpiece is the epitome of mediocrity, and it reinforces a dangerous trend where movies become a complete escape from reality instead of a different take on it.
What makes us human more than anything is our curiosity, our desire for knowledge. This movie and other highly rated movies like The Avengers are a step backwards. How could it be otherwise when visual stimulation replaced brain stimulation? Hopefully foreign movies won't follow the same steps.