An ensnarement of Action

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2015)

The Avengers – an Ensnarement of Action by Evan Wingenbach Joss Whedon's "The Avengers" has received loads of appraisal for its glorious battles and epic action. It's a movie that's easy to market and easy to make money but nothing really special. Filled with mindless battle sequences, that certainly gives the awe experience, but nothing more. A classic case of a big budget meant to have big hype and big profit.
The conflict in the story is quickly established in the opening scene when the tesseract a cube of pure power unleashes a portal and out comes Loki the banished demigod half-brother of Thor. Loki steals the tesseract planning to use its power to open a portal unleashing an alien army on earth. This gives the movie the breathtakingly simple plot, stop Loki or the world will end. The rest of the movie involves 5 super heroes (Captain America, Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, and Black Widow) plus another that spends most of the movie brainwashed on Loki's side (Hawkeye). These super heroes come together throughout the movie slinging backhanded remarks at each other making them joss Whedon's ultimate dysfunctional Family. Especially between Captain America and Tony Stark there is strong tension, but of course in the end the all put their differences aside and use their different but still the same skills together to save humanity. What a predictable "story book" finish.
The biggest problem is that the movie really has no suspense. Never throughout the movie is there a doubt in your mind that the avengers will succeed. They are given a basic but serious conflict and they just blow right through it with little to no complications. A giant alien snake comes out of the portal to wreak havoc; no problem the hulk will kill it with a single punch. The government is going to Nuke the populated city to try and cut their losses to only New York, hey don't worry iron man will just fly the nuke into the portal and use it on the aliens, but instead of just throwing the missile in the portal I'll fly all the way in with it that way it's a bit more dramatic (insert eye roll here).
The whole movie leading up to the end they are building up that Loki is more powerful than he seems and that it's going to take a miracle to defeat him. This attempt at suspense would maybe work if it wasn't just one big lie. This would be suspense dies in seconds during one of the most anticlimactic villain fights of all time (rivaling the death of Smaug in the Hobbit). The Hulk approaches Loki and you start to feel hey this is it the big Loki fight then in a blink of an eye this thought is killed while the Hulk flings Loki around like an overcooked noodle completely demolishing him and leaving him unable to move and for all intends and purposes defeated. Apparently it was that easy Overall the movie has no real plot. It's a simple plot that a 10 year old could've written. There is no real suspense just consistently reassured fact that the avengers kick-ass. The creators of this film basically just made up for what they lacked in actual movie plot with breathtaking action to keep you excited and entertained and to make you not realize that there really isn't much there. If you want to sit back, not put much thought in and just enjoy some crazy action and some try hard comedy this is the movie for you. Final verdict, 6 out of 10 stars.