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Avengers: Age of Ultron Review

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    Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) directed by Joss Whedon is a sequel to The Avengers (2012) that involves aforementioned superhero team attempting to save the world from a genocidal artificial intelligence (A.I.) that Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) created called Ultron (James Spader). Although this film is not as good as The Avengers or Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Age of Ultron is still a worthy follow up to these films.
    The special effects and fight choreography in this film are absolutely off the charts. CGI has gotten so good over the years that Ultron looks like a real-life robot. Even the Hulk’s flesh looks life like as well (I’ve noticed in movies that CGI rendered nonhuman subjects tend to look like they’re real. Living flesh on the other hand, seems like it’s a little more difficult to render). The fight choreography shows that The Avengers truly work as a well-oiled machine. A lesser film would have had these characters fight various foes individually during battle. If there’s one thing I must say about all of the action in this film is that audiences will eventually grow tired of seeing such large-scale destruction in superhero movies. You can only level a city so many times before it gets old. Logan (2017) shows the path that comic book films must take in order survive long term. Logan had some great action sequences but it’s on a smaller more intimate scale. Hopefully, once The Infinity War films are released Marvel will go in this direction and slowly build back up to large scale action sequences after several years.
    One thing I liked about this film is the bantering back and forth between characters. Joss Whedon is a master at writing witty dialogue and Avengers: Age of Ultron is no different as there are several lines that are utterly hilarious and are truly memorable. However, balancing this many character in a film is going to become too much somewhere down the line. I’m afraid films with such a huge cast of characters will eventually collapse under its own weight. Joss Whedon probably drove himself half insane trying to develop both character and plot development. In fact, this probably caused Whedon to opt out of directing The Infinity War films. Hopefully after The Infinity War films are released, Marvel will scale down the amount of characters used in these team up films and save them for special occasions.
     I know Avengers: Age of Ultron is somewhat controversial amongst fans; some people love it and some people hate it but I personally enjoyed this film. The action sequences alone are worth re-watching again and I think this film will be better appreciated in due time.
     Overall Rating: ****

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