Overrated but worth a watch

Rating: 7/10 (5 February 2014)

Avengers was completely over rated in my opinion and for many reasons. The four main characters were great Hulk, IronMan, Capt and Thor but the rest were just there to provide filler and the two assassins Hawkeye and Blackwidow had way too much screen time especially Blackwidow played by Scarlett Johansson. She is in almost every scene and is a really poor choice for this role in my opinion. I could think of a handful of actresses who are more deserving for this role than Johansson and put that with the fact she is is the weakest of all the actors in the film and you really begin to grate at the sight of her. As far as the look of her character black widow i would say she is no where near what she should look like. In all of her fight scenes she looks non atlethic and you can clearly tell when the stunt double fills in for her. Her fight scenes were laughable and really brought the rest of the great cgi fight scenes down. The second half of the film drags a bit with a lot of the Chitari henchmen being used as cannon fodder for our heroes and are are dispatched so easily you would wonder why there were sent in the first place as most of them are incompetent or just plain stupid! Its a solid enough film just let down a lot by Johansson and Jeremy Renner who was used as filler since the cgi fight scenes between the Hulk, Capt, Thor and iron man must have cost a pretty penny and they obviously felt it was too much of a risk to over spend in case the film bombed. Its a pity because it could have been a lot better without the unnecessary padding.