HOLY SPOILERS BATMAN: DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT AGE OF ULTRON SPOILED · 7:01am Apr 27th, 2015
Same, Dr. Crane, same.
If you're still reading you either have seen Age of Ultron or you're a rebel like me, who saw this movie on a camrip.
I have to be honest, I had read up on most of the spoilers because I heard some worrisome rumors. And according to the spoilers, my worst fears were confirmed.
But I thought: Let's wait and give it a chance. Maybe when you see it on screen the writing or direction or the actors will make it work.
And well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8NREI_IPs
No seriously you guys, this movie broke me. At one point I literally just got up and walked away for thirty minutes. I just couldn't handle it all in one sitting.
Let's put that into perspective with the films I've survived in one sitting:
G.I.: The Rise of Cobra
Annie (2014)
Exodus: Gods and Kings
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
But this movie broke into where I live, beat my body with a wrench, dragged me behind it's car for 47 blocks, and then dumped me in the sewer.
So I suppose this means I have to explain my reasons.
The movie has 10 characters and that's just about 5 too many even for a two hour film. But if you are going have so many characters then you need to choose which ones will have arcs and which are there to support them while they do.
So logically, how this movie is set up, Steve, Thor and Clint would be the support and Tony, Bruce and Natasha would be the ones with an arc. But for that to work all the characters have to interact and connect, so the supporters don't seem superfluous and the arcing characters don't look isolated.
This film can't do that. There are brief, token exchanges between the supporters and the arcing characters but at no moment do I feel any of them really engage in a proper confrontation--either the supporters don't challenge the other character's issues or the arcing character refuses to receive the other's words.
No one really seems to be speaking or listening to each other and that made the character relationships feel disconnected at best or nonexistent at worst.
It really is unflattering towards these characters whom we've grown attached too. I of course understand the need for character flaws but this flaw--not trusting or communicating with one another--I thought it was solved in Avengers.
You know, when after butting heads and petty fighting, they banded together over the (false) tragedy of Coulson's death.
And that only happened at the last 20 minutes of that film, so I thought this film would be about the team being challenged as one harmonious amenity. Their collective world-view and identity would be attacked.
Loki had been the "divide and conquer" villain so Ultron would be more the outward destroyer, throwing doubt onto their place as heroes in the world. Last movie they believed the world needed them, now he would make them feel obsolete.
But instead we get a retread of the last film's core conflict and then it's not even solved properly, they don't really ever learn to compromise or see the other person's view or just push past it.
Four of the six members take off and four new ones are recruited. So in fact we only got 20 minutes of an actual united Avengers team in the last movie and then as soon as we've gotten so know and hope for them, they break up. King Crimson had a more lasting line-up.
So, you might now be asking, how in fact did Ultron challenge the Avengers? After the smashingly devious and conniving Loki, arguably the most impactful villain of the Marvel films just in terms of sheer force of personality, what did Ultron bring to the table?
Well, this:
My friends, if you thought Loki's continuous mourning over his daddy issues, waxing eloquent on his god complex, and demanding people to kneel before him was immature you have seen nothing.
Ultron's characterization is like that of a schizophrenic five-year-old abandoned by his mother. Erratically and unevenly portrayed as monstrous, then arrogant, then tragic, and then pathetic, you can never decide how you're suppose to respond to him.
Unlike Loki, who was equal parts charming and repulsive, understandable and yet unjustified, Ultron seems to demand our pity for his sorry state while assaulting you like a rabid dog.
His actual persona is also bizarrely handled. At times he exudes cold intimidation and haughty confidence, his languages becomes grand and Biblical. But suddenly this attitude will disintegrate and his language becomes stuttering and awkwardly lax, as if he read some 90s text book on how to relate to the hip young folk, and he becomes desperate and pleading, like a forlorn lover from an adult romance begging his partner not to abandon him on the cold moors.
Now I know what this is meant to show is the Frankenstein's Monster experience, being thrust into a world fully grown but a complete emotional blank. It also has shades of the dilemma of the child prodigy, just because you are mentally advanced doesn't meant you have the wisdom or the emotional fortitude to properly bear it.
The fact that Ultron is an artificial intelligence with access to the Internet and designed with the purpose of protecting the entire planet brings up more moral/ethical questions: is it man's place to create such things? Is it creating life or just a mimicry of it? Can an A.I. ever really protect humanity if it is not human itself? Can it ever achieve humanness?
And how much of this is explored in the two hour twenty minute run time?
None.
Not a single one of these questions are asked, even in passing. When Loki was the villain, his beliefs were constantly being explored, the concept of freedom being bondage and servitude bringing safety.
But Ultron is just allowed to spout his insanity and all the heroes answer with basically:
So we're left just forced to listen to Ultron's tantrums and free-style poetry without anyone cutting him off with actual heroic philosophy or just punching him out. Good Lord knows the brat needed a paddling.
Speaking of the good Lord, one thing that Ultron seems to l o v e is Biblical references and it comes off very random and stilted. It was like "someone" looked at the situation they had written, then picked an object at random thought related to the scene--judgment, free will, foundation--and then Google searched the word plus "Bible" and went with the first verse the search gave.
You know, the kind of selective mindset either self-righteous Pharisees or ignorant heathens use to bolster their flimsy, self-serving agendas? Instead of, you know, reading through the Bible and seeing how it comes together as a whole morally? Like I how I had to watch through this vestryman to proselyte review so I could fully understand it's message, characters, and plot-lines?
I personally felt it was also rather offensive. No one else mentions or utilizes the Word of God except the villain and since I am aware of Whedon's atheism (if my sources are correct he referred to God as the "sky bully") it really makes this entire aspect of Ultron smack of spitefulness.
But even putting my own perception of this aside and looking at it logically, why is Ultron so consumed with the Bible? He has access to the entirety of the Internet, that means just about every world religion or belief system is laid out before him, why does he single out Christianity?
Did he do some calculation and conclude that Biblical references would make an impact in more people than say Jewish, Islamic, Hinduism or Buddhism? Why did he never quote other none-religious philosophers such as Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche, or Marx? The ideologies of safety vs freedom, free will vs predestination and God vs man have been discussed outside of the Bible.
It's never even stated whether Ultron:
A. Believes in God and imagines himself His hand or messenger (why does he pick the Christian God to serve, does He align more with Ultron's view of his own nature and that of the world than any other religion's deity?)
or
B. He sees himself as a god (does he then emulate the Christian God because he sees him as representing the ideal concept of godhood?)
All I ask is to explain why an artificial intelligence made by man,
derived from a pseudo magic/science Infinity Stone that apparently was formed by the Big Bang,
who doesn't seem to be concerned with actual spirituality
(not a single mention of the Heaven or Hell, the devil, angels or demons, spirits, prophecy, enlightenment or revelations)
constantly quotes the words of Jehovah????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Speaking of an actual God, Tony Stark decides to play God by creating Ultron, a single A.I. to protect THE ENTIRE GLOBE AND ALL THAT LIVE WITHIN from another alien attack.
Yeah, just like HYDRA the villains sought out the Tesseract, bestowed power upon the Maximoff twins, created an algorithm to track every human being on the Earth and Helicarriers programmed to eliminate potential threats, all in the name of "the greater good".
Now some may say, "Well in the start of the film Wanda Maximoff used her heeby-jeeby powers to poison his mind and choices."
She can make people "see their worst fears", but that's all it is, a really bad trip that you can shake off if you have the will to (as Captain America does). It isn't like she tactfully can cast a spell that rewires your brain or puts you under mind control like Loki's staff.
So everything Tony does is purely out of
his own fears, which he never divulges to his teammates although the vision and the outcome involves them
and
selfishness, he is a afraid so he makes a choice that makes him feel safe with no regard to anyone else's wishes.
Hey, just like Ultron, our villain whose singular desire is to destroy all life on Earth.
But now I know what you're thinking: "They're trying to draw parallels between Tony and his creation, hence the God references (God making man in His image as it says in Genesis) and even the Pinocchio reference made in the trailer and film itself!"
We only get a minute and maybe a half long scene of both Tony and Bruce doing science-y mumbo jumbo to create Ultron, but they never speak or refer to him as a personality or entity of his own (unlike Jarvis, who they warmly interact with like he's a person and member of the team) and when Ultron is first "awakened" neither of them are present. Ultron learns all about his creators from the Internet, their files on their research and work on him, and security footage from the Avengers tower, so there is no personal level to the relationship.
Ultron says he hates Tony but we are given no reason as to why. All the Avengers collectively try to stop him, is it just because Tony is one of his creators it hurts or offends him that he would try to destroy him?
He never even mentions Bruce though, and wasn't he just as involved in Ultron's creation? Tony was the instigator but Bruce rolled over like a good dog and played along, but at least half of Ultron's creation is credited to his scientific knowledge.
And never at one moment does Tony express any emotion towards Ultron except that of a man trying to shut down a corrupted software, just eliminate it and try again. Ultron seems to view Tony as his father, yet Tony view him as merely a tool like a wrench or hammer. This isn't even in keeping with Tony's character, since we've seen him treat Jarvis, his helper robots and even his suits as almost living beings who he jokes, snipes and even expresses affection for.
Why is Ultron different? Is it just because he instantly upon birth tried to kill you all?
And I mean it, developing motivation and character apparently wasn't important, there was just a two minutes scene with Ultron waking up, feeling disoriented, searching the Web for his purpose and then saying he intends to kill the world because that is enough for the main villain of a two hour film!
For God's sake, Loki did have a previous film to build his character on but even so in Avengers neither he nor any of the other characters wouldn't stop talking or analyzing about his motivations for his villainy!
On top of all this, Tony try again towards the end of the film to recreate Ultron just "without the imperfections". Yeah, after seeing the horrific damage Ultron has wreaked upon his friends and innocents, Tony tries again to "perfect" the process. He has not once said he's sorry or admits he was wrong or made a mistake, he just goes, "Ooops, let's try that selfish and paranoid idea one more time just without the evil!"
He literally takes Jarvis, who has spent the whole of the movie so far downloaded inside Ultron, and puts him inside a half human half robotic body made for Ultron with the Infinity Stone from the Tessract embed into it (something about Ultron wanting to evolve into something stronger, it was really vague and unclear), and with Thor's lighting brings him to life as "Vision".
So...a program that has spent time in the corrupting influence of your enemy in this movie in the body made from the last corrupting influence that overtook your friends in the last movie?
It's not like he even says, "I'm not trying to create another Ultron, just a force to fight him since we've failed," N O P E he specifically says he wants to make Ultron again but this time "perfect!" You couldn't manage it last time what makes you think now with compromised and limited time and resources you can do this?!!!
He even self-righteously calls out and physically fights the certain Avengers--his friends--who try to stop him from doing this! He doesn't even have all the information about the body he's downloading Jarvis into, so he literally dives into this kiddie pool blind, deaf, and dumb, while shouting "I'm RIGHT!" at the top of his lungs.
And you know the best part?
It works.
It all turns out, Vision is a cool guys worthy of lifting Mjolnir, and Tony was right all along and never gets called out for once again: not consulting the rest of his team and his intentions only being rooted in his own fears of personal failure.
So kids, if you make a mistake that causes the mental distress of your friends and the safety of hundred of innocent people and puts the earth in danger of annihilation, don't apologize or ask for help or try to better communicative your fears to those who can help. Just keep doing what you did before and hope it turns out for the best.
Broken Aesop much?? Character regression much??
Speaking of character regression, what the hell is up with Bruce in this movie? He just lets Tony convince him in gambling with the fate of the world twice in the same movie and it take maybe a total of three sentences from Tony each time. I thought Bruce was supposed to be a genius and wouldn't a guy clearly bearing the burden of horrible, destructive power be gun-shy of creating something with even more potential to destroy?
And what is his relationship upgrade with Natasha about and why is it suddenly a thing? It's not like it's something that slowly dawns on either of them throughout the course of the story, but from the very first 10 minutes Natasha--the lady everyone praised for being oh so professional and strong and independent in the last two films--throws herself at him like she's dying to get laid.
The majority of her interactions with him are her making bedroom eyes, speaking in phone-sex voice, and leaning herself into his personal space. There's even one moment when during a battle he ends up falling face first ON HER CHEST like they're in a rom-com anime!
Look, I love romance, it's my favorite genre. I don't mind sex either, I've read the Song of Solomon, sex is totally cool. But there is a VAST VAST VAST difference between wanting to be physically intimate with someone you have an emotional/psychotically/intellectual and just needed to release some base urges.
The only reasons for her attraction that she states is that she's always been around "fighting men" and she likes that Bruce "runs away from the fight because he knows he'll always win". Pardon my little brain here but...what?
Do you mean you prefer a man who doesn't resort to his fists first? Or just doesn't use violence at all? Or knows when to pick his battles? Or understand that he has great power and so tries to hold it back for the safety of others? Which one is it, Natasha?!
The other reasons she gives is that they're both "monsters". So shared self-loathing, that's healthy.
But Bruce's monstrous qualities were caused by a freak accident and are mostly out of his control, he freaks out and smashes things. Natasha was victimized as a child and after being given a second chance, chose to continue on this ambiguous path. The nature of their harm to others is very different, the Hulk's is unintentional while as a spy and assassin Natasha's is always intended. So yes thought they are both "monsters" it's in a very different psychological way.
But still, it could work but there are still so many other problems with this relationship.
1. A romance Clint and Natasha were shamelessly and blatantly implied in the Avengers and even Winter Soldier (she's wearing an arrow necklace in that film). Some may say it was platonic but I argue that if you watch Natasha's interactions with the other men throughout her Marvel appearances (with Tony in Iron Man 2, Bruce in Avengers, Steve and Nick in Winter Soldier) those all have a platonic vibe to them, while her and Clint's scenes have, at the very least, a more suspicious atmosphere.
2. It was not hinted at for foreshadowed at all. Nowhere in Avengers did I get a romantic feeling from them, just that Whedon randomly picked her to be the catalyst for showing how terrifying the Hulk. It's not hinted at in Winter Soldier either, instead it chose to hint more at her and Clint's connection (again I refer to the arrow necklace).
3. If you saw the The Incredible Hulk you know that in fact Bruce was not always alone or abandoned in his troubles, but had the unwavering support of his long-time girlfriend Betty who played a wonderfully tender and compassionate Beauty to his Beast. She was the one who encouraged him not to think of the Hulk wholly as a horrific monstrosity and to try and find the connection between himself and the monster in hopes to find a link to control it.
Whedon clearly through the dialogue in Avengers made this film unofficially canon (Bruce mentioning he "broke Harlem" and his speech about his failed suicide is a reference to a deleted scene from The Incredible Hulk).
So then what, is only the bits and pieces he decides to mention canon? Has Bruce forgotten about Betty? Does Disney not want to recast her even though this is the third time the Hulk has been recast so why not Betty? Why go through the trouble of referencing a film only to make one of the key elements of it invalid?
4. They're selfish. All they keep saying is how they want to just pick up and leave. So, what are you going to tell the Avengers? "SHIELD is gone and all so you have like no backup but me the hyper skilled assassin and your biggest hitter are running off to go live in Fiji while you guys continue to break your backs and make personal sacrifices to save the world." It's not that I mind people deciding they want to retire and settle, but they never once talk about if it's the right thing to do or labor over leaving all this work of protecting the whole world to their friends. They just want to run off because they're so in love and so tired of their hard lives. They sound like Romeo and Juliet, and those were two underage hormone addled teenagers with no parental supervision who ended up committing suicide after being married less than a week and sleeping together only once!
5. This might be personal opinion but I don't see the chemistry. Natasha is all over Bruce but like I said, it looks like shallow animal impulse and maybe just loneliness, but not a deep love. It's like, "This guy has some thing almost kinda not really like I experienced so I'll run off with him." She just looks like she needs an escape and he's the easiest way, since she is the more aggressive and instigator of their interactions, so it's not like he'll challenge her in any way he's so lonely and bumbling and, if his interactions with Tony are any indication, easy to string along. On Bruce's end, I don't see any attraction, he always looks awkward around her and even seems kinda baffled as to her attention of him and her sudden desire to fly away and leave everyone behind. At the end when he gives in it feels less like the realization of deep love and more like, "OMG, this hot chick wants to jump in bed with me what am I doing????"
Moving on but somehow staying on the topic of romance, Clint's family comes right the hell outta nowhere. As I said, no hints whatsoever and it seems the movie at first goes out of it's way say "No no no, he's totally on his own, totally single!" Only to turn around and be like, "Psych!! He's got a wife and three kids."
Listen, I don't care that he isn't shipped with Natasha, personally I ship her with Bucky because I find that relationship (from the comics) actually compelling: him being her trainer in the Red Room, both of them punished for their romantic involvement, and then reuniting when his memories resurface.
But Clint's family serve no purpose except to be a reason for him to leave the Avengers later. They get no development, his kids are just there to run adorably across the screen, his wife is there to be very pregnant and almost a Stepford Wife level of forcefully niceness.
She has one very short, trite and cliched speech to Clint, basically telling him the team needs him but he ought to be sure they're actually a team who has his back. Any of the Avengers themselves could have said this to him, even Nick or Maria, her saying it adds no extra emotion or makes me feel their connection. And they're supposed to be husband and wife.
Again, it's not that I care that they destroy Clintasha, it's just there was no forewarning, they add nothing to his character, and they have no depth other than being utterly perfect so we can be afraid he'll die and never return or for us to feel happy that he's happy. Giving Hawkeye a puppy or a pink balloon would have had the same effect on his character.
Whew, this is a long one I know and those of you who are still with me I both thank, admire and fear your power. But I know what you all have been thinking: "When is she going to get to the twins?"
Oh don't worry, I have quite a spiel saved up for these two...
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I loved them.
No but I heard your accent from a mile away.
Pietro and Wanda Maximoff are played with such gusto and earnestness and obvious pleasure by Aaron Taylor Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen that I would pay in my own blood to see a film just focusing on them. Their Eastern European accents alone are worth the price of admission.
Pietro sounds like a Russian gangster, the whole time you're waiting for him to ask for a bottle of vodka or mention "the old country."
Wanda sounds like Count Dracula and Frau Blucher (HORSE WHINNIES) had a love child. She mugs with wild mascara-smeared eyes and her voice is so guttural and accent so extreme you're always expecting her to start speaking of the glories of the Motherland and Stalin and Communism and the Worker's Revolution.
They are given a single scene where they have to stand perfectly still and vomit exposition to the ten foot tall sinister robot that they for some reason instantly believe is a good guy despite:
1. Coming from their hated enemy (THE DECADENT WEST! Or just Tony Stark, whatever)
2. Wanda being unable to read his mind to assure herself of his intentions
3. Both of them obviously being very independent and self-motivated people who have basically been raised on the brutal streets of a war-torn Eastern European country since they were ten.
But you know what even though it's terrible writing with no build-up and no effort to show Ultron actually gaining their trust, I don't care because they inject so much genuine feeling into their soliloquies that I believed and felt for them.
When they described their parents deaths, caused by one of Stark's military missiles hit their home, and they were trapped under the rubble for two whole days with another missile just lying a few feet away, I understood their drive. Even though coupled with their extreme accents and performances, I did expect one of them to say something along the lines of:
Despite being the newcomers, they really get little development. They have that one scene telling their sob story, they try to help Ultron kill the Avengers, then Wanda sees a vision of what Ultron has in store (while he was attempting to download himself into proto-Visions body, it was just as confusing and vague as it sounds) and then they decide to help the Avengers stop him because really, even capitalism isn't as bad as the extinction of the human race.
There is one token scene where Clint has to calm Wanda down during the last fight, telling her if she wants she can stand down but if she decides to step out that door she's an Avenger.
That's all it takes kids, you can have worked for the destruction of the Avengers your whole life, willingly joined up with HYDRA and Ultron, but you help in one battle to make sure that you live to see another day and you're Avenger material. But given Clint's history he seems to collect these wayward women for heroic causes.
But really their characterization would be moot if the actors had not ensured that in their every second on screen they are doing something, even if it's just their posture or how they move their eyes or twitch their hands, they have a presence that unique to their character. Also, they wrench every emotion out of the lines they're give, their chemistry is obvious and flawless, and their banter is the only genuine, heart-warming and actually funny kind in the film.
Pietro himself has most of the funny lines and his sportive, devil-may-care swaggering and sarcasm is refreshingly amiable in the midst of the old Whedon snark (which by this point often comes off as stuck-up, bitter or even mean-spirited if isn't making their characters sound dumb just to make a joke). Pietro seemed very aware and unabashed of how awesome he was and clearly needed no encouraging to show it.
Wanda is the more intense one but her performance contains a level of self-awareness that seems to indicate she realizes how insanely overwrought she is and just looks for more ways to play it up. It reminded me a lot of Raul Julia in Street Fighter.
Hey they're even wearing the same colors!
Oh yeah and Pietro gets strafed by Ultron in the finally battle. The scene happens in like the course of a minute, is so sudden and so unemotive it carries no weight. Also we all know he's coming back because the actor signed a multi-film contract.
It just makes no sense story-wise why he had to die. They were already buddy-buddy with the Avengers (Pietro even more so with Wanda, he had vitriolic best buds thing going on with Clint) and clearly enjoyed working with them so it's not like his death was required to spur them into joining. Hell, I think Pietro would have just bugged them until they let them join.
It's just there to have Wanda freak out and tear Ultron's heart out (literally, she rips out his core) in the most classically melodramatic way possible with Ultron saying sorrowfully: "If you stay here, you'll die," and Wanda growling in her syrup-tick accent: "I already have. It felt like having your heart ripped out." And she tears his core out and hold it in her hand while adding like, "Yeah, like this."
Oh and Vision saves her from a falling city (just go with it, it's not really important overall). Oh yeah, Visions here and he stands around and talks about humans being good and Ultron being kind of a meanie. He has a bit of a nice moment when he talks to Ultron for the last time and acknowledges that while humans are "doomed" it's just a privilege to take part in their existence for now. He really has no character except to be the opposite of Ultron and he only shows up maybe in the last 30-25 minutes.
Final words on stuff that was glossed over in the general horridness but still bugged me:
Clint still could have been cut out of the movie and nothing would have changed, he barely interacted with the other Avengers except to give the same "witty" banter. And he had way cooler moments in Avengers and a far more interesting arc, and that was just in the last 30 minutes of that movie.
Why was Baron Strucker taken out like a bitch? In the mid-credits scene of Winter Solider he looked hammy but clearly invested in being as ostentatiously sinister, manipulative and scheming as possible. In the first scene he even refuses his second in commands instance to involve the twins in a battle, seemingly through pragmatism and wanting to save them for later (though the twins run off and join the fray anyhow).
But after that brief moment of actual intelligent villainy he takes leaps and bounds in dumbass when he mouths off to Captain America and gets a shield of FREEDOM to the chest, knocking him out. Next time we see him is only in a picture on a laptop, or rather his corpse with the word P E A C E written in his blood on the wall his body is slumped against. Ultron apparently killed him for knowing too much but we never saw them interact so it just feels like they needed him gone.
I don't see why, they could have easily replaced Andy Serkis's role with him. Yes, I know Serkis is a Black Panther villain and they want to hint to Wakanda and the vibranium had to come from somewhere, but Strucker is HYDRA he could have had the metal stored away or something. Then if they wanted to kill him he could have at least gone out in a blaze against both Ultron and the Avengers. It was like Whedon wanted to get back at the Russos for directing such a better film than him so he butchered the cool villain they had set-up. Or maybe Strucker will come back, it's a comic book movie afterall. But still Whedon made his character a joke and just another silly villain to hit.
Why did Bruce leave at the end? Clearly we're shown that it's the power of love (or sex) that can now tame the Hulk (sooo the minute Natasha leaves or dies he'll just be nuts again? This is what happens when you pin you whole self-worth on one person) and he can fight without harming others around him. So why leave, everything turned out well and this hot lady wants you, why are you messing with a good thing? Idiot.
Finally, how is that a multi-international espionage agency like HYDRA/SHIELD can have it's every dirty secret dumped on the Web for the whole world to see and the earth does not exploded into World War Forty-Seven? HYDRA/SHIELD probably had it's dirty fingers in every secrecy agency from Mossad, to the CIA, to MI6, to the KGB, and since HYDRA was evil and all they probably had some terrorist organizations in their pocket too.
How is it that all that comes to the light and there aren't riots in the streets, political hysteria, and international crisis to put every conflict in the previous history of the world to shame? They don't even mention it once in this movie, they're not dealing with the aftereffects of the last movie, they're still focusing on stuff that happened THREE MOVIES AGO that should have already be solved!
Why is Rhodey on the team in the end? He's just there to try to be as badass as Tony but end up just totally confused by everything. He doesn't even really know anybody but Tony and you can say he's met the others off-screen but that means we've never seen them bond or interact in a way that makes me think they would consider him Avenger material.
Why was Thor in this movie? Don't get me wrong, he was as fun and sweet as always but he didn't need to be here. Cut him out and nothing changes. Also, really Thor just leaving that all-powerful Infinity Stone with a day old A.I.? I know Vision could lift the hammer but again, how is it that this thing when in Loki's staff made people act evilly but in Vision it makes him a boy scout??
So in (finally) conclusion, this film managed to do the impossible: anger me more than Iron Man 2. Though that film was even shoddier when it came to direction and story, this one did more to hurt and regress the characters I enjoyed and add nothing of lasting good overall to the franchise. With the exception of the twins, this movie has no reason to exist.
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Excellent review my friend!
Well, I actually enjoyed Clint here, and it still makes for an entertaining pop corn flick. But generally I agree; this film was a huge step backward and the script needed several extra rounds in the editing room.
Wow...you're reviews better then mine.
3070401 No, yours are just different
3072320 That's good to know. Thanks.