Anyway, when I have the opportunity to see Scarlett Johansson’s
boobs in 3D on a 100 foot screen you can certainly bet that I will be there on opening
night! And from the very first scene you could tell what this movie was going to
be all about; tons of computer generated action with a somewhat convoluted
storyline. I honestly thought the first scene was a video game training
sequence until the evil Strucker and his genetically enhanced twins show up.
This is where we are introduced to Quicksilver (Aaron
Taylor-Johnson) and his sister Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olson). Quicksilver is
just like the one you saw in X-Men as they chose to film his scenes in a
similar fashion by slowing down the world around him while he runs from target
to target; which I have to admit is still pretty entertaining. My friend
pointed out to me that the one Olsen who is not a twin in real life plays one
in a superhero movie; maybe she’s living out a life-long fantasy. And after
hearing her with a Russian accent, I’d have to say that I too have a few
fantasies that I’d like to live out with her but I won’t bore you or freak you
out with those here.
But once this opening sequence is done, the Avengers do
finally come away with Loki’s scepter. So they are in control of a very
powerful weapon that can once again bring evil to Earth. But what the rest of
the team doesn’t know is that Scarlet Witch used her powers to mess with the
mind of Tony Stark and he now has plans to use the scepter to create the world’s
first AI machine to protect us from attack. The problem is, the AI otherwise
known as Ultron, doesn’t come out as planned and he goes on a mission to
destroy the Avengers as well as the world.
It’s a fairly decent story and for the most part Joss Whedon
(writer and director) does a good job of getting each character their due time
on screen. The problem is, that there are just far too many characters on
screen to begin with. What made Captain America 2 the best Marvel movie was the
fact that it was a simple story (by comparison). They just focused on Cap and
his fight with the Winter Soldier, this way they could put more emphasis and
time on creating amazing action sequences between characters you actually cared
about and were invested in.
This movie tries to balance way too many storylines and has
far too many scenes that involve the Avengers fighting nameless and faceless
robots; which would be cool if they were Terminator robots but they aren’t.
They’re more like a weak version of Storm Troopers who only show up to get
tossed off the screen in less than two seconds.
There is one really cool action scene that involves a fight
between Ironman and the Hulk where they basically destroy an entire city. It
goes on and on for like 15 minutes but it’s by far the freshest part of the
movie; I just wish they didn’t cast the annoying Mark Ruffalo as David Banner.
He’s old, he’s lame, and he makes you want to punch him in the face; especially
when they introduce the unnecessary love subplot between him and Natasha. This
movie runs almost 2 ½ hours long, that’s a good 20 minutes that could have easily
been cut out.
James Spader playing Ultron was tight as he added a
sarcastic and funny element to the main villain but by the time his counterpart
Vision showed up, things got a little weird because it felt like Vision was
more sexually confused than anything else. Maybe it was tight leather he was
wearing.
Overall I’d have to say that I enjoyed Ultron, mainly due to
the fact that every 10 minutes or so a robot would come flying across the
screen (and yes I do realize that I complained about this earlier) but I do
have to say that it left me wishing they had done more with it. You will say
goodbye to some Avengers in this movie while saying hello to a few others, let’s
just hope they eventually replace Don Cheadle (who I love in absolutely
everything else btw) by the time the next one comes around.
I rate this movie as kind of FRESH!
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