Avengers: Age of Ultron --- 6/10
Movie was okay.. It gets a 6 out of 10 because it was quite humorous. But outside of comedy, the movie lacked any real substance.
The romance between Natasha and Bruce was whack; and turning down multiple opportunities to fuck Scarlett Johansson really stretches one's suspension of disbelief. Just fuck her already! Do it for all of us.. Do it for me!
Anyway...
Hulk getting knocked out by the Hulkbuster was just... look, I know it happened in the comics (the whole scene is taken from an issue of Iron Man).. But this wasn't a one-shot hit, and Hulk had already been raging... I know they showed him calm down a bit, but.... It was kinda like huh? Even people around me were like, "bullshit."
Ultron was nothing more than the fill-in for the midnight monster. His voice acting by James Spader was fantastic though, but the dialogue and direction of the character was pretty weak. He's going to destroy the world! M'kay cool...
As I thought, Ultron being created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner made little to no sense. It was done haphazardly, simply to write Henry Pym out of the movie. And the Oedipus complex that really drives Ultron is really left unexplained. Ultron's insanity is completely left, unexplained. He's supposed to be just a bad version of Stark; but other than his sense of humor, he's nothing like Stark.
Captain America, Iron Man, War-Machine, Hawkeye, Fury, and Thor were all portrayed well... Cap't was great, but you can tell the writers don't really understand the character as it seems they only put him in charge of the Avengers, just because he's supposed to be.
You get glimpses of his leadership abilities and righteousness, but you don't feel compelled by the direction of his character. If you don't already respect Captain America before walking in the movie, you'd probably walk out not really getting why he's supposed to be this great leader all that much.
Honestly, this movie could have been great, but instead was just a forgettable action movie that really spent more time on completely completely meaningless character development (Hawkeye, Bruce, Natasha) and a great deal of time on comedy (which was genuinely laugh out loud funny).
It's a good time at the theater, but it's not a memorable film. Trust me it could've been a million times worse, just look at AM2. But I hope they get another director for the next film. I don't want the movies to get 'darker' per se, or even more serious, I just hope the direction and writing could improve - these aspects of the film were very weak.
6/10.
