Empty Of Content

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2014)

Failing to fins a suitable villain the writers then patently failed to think of a decent story, but they still had 2 hours and 20 minutes of movie to fill. So what to do? Probably after several drinks and very late at night, someone had a bright idea: Let's pit the Avengers against each other! That'll fill at least 90 minutes of movie.
And so we get a lot of contrived situations where one Avenger goes up against another. Of course, you can't pit a puny human against a demi-god, or the Hulk, or Iron Man, so the combinations are limited. Hawk-eye versus the Black Widow, Thor versus Iron Man, Thor versus Captain America, and so on.
Having exhausted all those possibilities, we finally get to the main action against the 'baddies'. For a supposed invasion of Earth, we get to see a dozen troop carriers, with about 1000 troops, who proceed to randomly shoot at anything and everything. Cue nuclear blast and the story ends.
And there we are. A film that's just one fight after another, with characters making senseless decisions, with indestructible heroes that defy the laws of physics, and SFX that detract rather than add to the experience.
And then there are the plot holes, and there are dozens of them. There are so many of them that it would take me 2 hours and 20 minutes just to list them.
If you want a film devoid of plot, with action sequences you can't follow, with a pitiful ending, then the Avengers is the film for you.