Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13)
Run Time: 141 min
Avengers: Age of Ultron is a new superhero action
movie, sequel to the 2012 blockbuster The Avengers and the eleventh
installment in the record-breaking Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed once again
by Josh Whedon, this film features an all-star ensemble cast starring: Robert
Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson,
Jeremy Renner, James Spader and Samuel L. Jackson. With Marvel’s seemingly
endless string of incredibly entertaining and absurdly profitable installments
in this franchise, my expectations as a fan were higher than ever for what was
unquestionably one of the biggest movie releases of the year. In the end, Age
of Ultron is yet another unbelievably exciting movie from Marvel that was
even better than I expected.
Early on in the film, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and
Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) work together to complete an artificial
intelligence project called Ultron (voiced by James Spader), designed as a
global defense program. However, the plan immediately turns against them as
Ultron believes he has to destroy all of humanity in order to save the world.
Ultron constructs his own physical body and eventually an entire robot army in
order to execute his destructive plan. Now, all of the Avengers must team up to
save the world yet again, alongside some powerful new allies, facing a threat
far greater than anything they have experienced before.
For starters, Age of Ultron is undeniably amongst
the most entertaining films you will see. Now that Marvel has established hours
of backstory and the team has already been assembled, this movie has the luxury
of being completely action packed from start to finish. However, they still
found time in the fairly lengthy runtime to continue to expand on the
characters we have grown to love, particularly Clint Barton/Hawkeye. I thought
he was very underused in the original movie, but they really fixed that
character balance issue this time around. As expected, this movie has stunning
special effects and the action sequences are completely amazing. Furthermore,
the acting was exceptionally good for an action movie like this, filled with
plenty of clever humor. I would also say that Ultron is the most well done
villain in the series to date, largely due to the brilliant voice performance
from James Spader (The Blacklist). Overall, Avengers: Age of Ultron completely
blew me away and I thought it even improved on it’s amazing, epic predecessor.
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