Virag's Movie Reviews: Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015)

Yeah, it was fun movie, and still benefits from the not-nearly-as-big-of-a-fucking-mess-as-you-would-think reality of the first one.  The thing is, the flick is kind of a mess and unnecessarily muddled, and overall it falls way short of the Spider-Man 2 standard of a reasonably tight, (reasonably) coherent superhero movie.  Ultron fails to properly place a bunch of the story so it gets annoying in spots; surely Thor had almost no place in this thing, since his sorta important role was robbed of all context by the editing-for-running-time approach.  In the end, this thing was not bad and will in no way impede Marvel from continuing their plan for taking all the money for the next decade plus.  When the potential is so much greater than the reality, though, the whole thing feels a little cheap and wasted without the surprise and fun of the first flick.  Plus, the plot, such as it was, was a real retread of the first one, anonymous army of disposable targets, forced conflict within the team, and the story took the MCU all the way into the realm of hopelessly goofy and stranded it there with no hope of rescue--especially considering what the original Iron Man, Hulk, and Captain America stories attempted to convey; Scarlet Witch, the upcoming Ant Man, Dr. Strange, and Captain Marvel movies might unravel into tedium when taken as a whole or into the whole.  That may come back to bite if it becomes tiresome, but given how this film will perform, nobody with a stake is worried yet.