The Avengers succeeded at one thing. Proving that IMDb is nothing more than what it really is. A database about movies and not a place to look for legitimate reviews.

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2012)

It's my first review here. The reason why i don't review movies here is simple. It's because English is not my first language. But i found the Avengers score to be so ridiculous that i decided to make my first review. The Avengers is not the first overrated or underrated movie here. But usually such overreaction about a movie last for 2 weeks or 1 month. After the fans saw and reviewed it the score adjust itself when the people not sold to the movie start to see it. But in the case of The Avengers it seems that there's so much people who gave The Avengers a not deserved 10 that to this day even after the disc release the score is still way too high. 8.4 ? More than Scarface and only 0.2 point away from Apocalyspe now. You got to be kidding me right ? But enough with my IMDb criticism here's my review of the movie.
Personally i try to review movie with an open mind and rate a movie for what it is and what it tries to be. If a movie features some of the best special effects or action sequences ever i'm gonna consider it in my review. But what actually makes a good movie ? Directing, acting, casting, special effects, soundtrack, costume, script, editing, makeup, cinematography ... soul ? Personally i don't think a great movie needs to masterize all those. Few movies actually did. Shawshank Redemption was really close. But i think a great movie needs to be at the very least top in at the minimum 2 or 3 categories. So let's see for the Avengers. Let's start with the script. Honestly it's one of the worst script i've seen on the last 10 years. It makes Tron Legacy script looks like a chef-d'oeuvre. The directing ? This is where The Avengers shine a little bit and it's the only place it does. It's a miracle Joss was able to make something good out of this awful script. The acting was not bad but it was uneven. Tom Hiddleston did a good job as Lokki (Fassbender would have been better). Downey was good as usual but sorta under the autopilot. Ruffalo was okay but did not play a big role. Renner and Johansson did the best they could with uninteresting characters. But they were certainly not able to outdo themselves to make those characters interesting. Evans was awful as usual i can't stand this guy. Hemsworth was not really credible as a semi-god. But can't really blame him when a semi-god gets owned by a modern day Mr Hyde. Overall the acting was galaxies away from Fifth Element. I have a lot of respect for most of the actors in the Avengers. Who is to blame for the not exceptional acting ? The script ? The directing ? The casting ? Lack of interest in the project by the actors ? Maybe a little bit of all of those.
Now let's get to the name of the game which is the action sequences and the special effects. And this is where i disagree with people giving this moving more than 7. While the special effects were technically great those were very far from being in the top league. Tron Legacy had far more interesting special effects and Tron Legacy did not succeed. Avatar was leagues over The Avengers. Avatar is major league. The Avengers is a farm club. Inception too even if i did not like it as much as i wanted to. The Avengers special effects don't have a soul. They are artistically nothing to write home about. I already forgot them. When i got out of the theater after seeing Avatar 3D i felt like when i was young and saw Terminator 2 for this first time. I felt something i had not felt in years. I was impressed by the special effects alone. Everything else was not important. The Avengers special effects are meh! It's like a 10 years old kid designed them and they spent millions over millions to make them technically look good. Now let's get to the action sequences. Hero is league over that. The firth Element is league over that. Terminator 2 is league over that. The Matrix is a god creation when it comes to action sequences if you compare it to the Avengers. Now i'm not saying the special effects and action sequences were bad. Cause they were good. What i'm saying is it's not worthy of a 8, 9 or 10 and not even close to it when you consider the script and uneven acting. The special effects and actions sequences were certainly not good enough to make this movie great. There's hundred and probably even thousand of movies with better special effects and action sequences (when you compare them to the movies released at the same time).
Now when i started this review i intended to give the Avengers a 1 star. But doing so would make me as bad as the people who gave this movie a 10. So a decided to give it the score it deserves which is imo a 6.9. Now personally i think that IMDb should think about the way it calculates the weighted average. 10 and 1 rating weight way too much. Let's be honest for a second we have enough fingers to count the number of movies worthy of a 10 or 1. I'm astonished to see that close to 40% of the people gave The Avengers a 10. I really don't see how someone could think this movie is perfect. Even a fan of Marvel. The script alone is enough reason to reduce the score. I don't mind short movies with no script when they embrace it. But sadly the Avengers was close to 2 hours and a half and actually tried to tell a story. And this is where imo the movie actually failed.