Avengers Age of Ultron Review

     I just saw one of my most anticipated movies of the year. Avengers Age of Ultron. The first Avengers movie is one of my favorite movies of all-time. I coinsider seeing that in the theatre the end of my childhood. I had my best friend from high school over, we watched all the build-up movies, and the next morning we saw it. The first Avengers movie was also the first movie I bought on blu-ray. Some of my readers may remember that the Avengers review was the first post I made on this blog. That movie made me want to start this blog. Needless to say I'm a huge fan of the Avengers. Does this movie live up to the hype, or was phase two all for nothing?

      If you don't know the plot, Tony Stark creates Ultron with the intent of protecting the world, however Ultron becomes self-aware and tries to destroy the world. All that stands between him, and the extinction of the human race is the Avengers. 

     One problem Marvel had with phase two is that their villains were not memorable. Ultron is not only the best villain in phase two, he's second only to Loki for the best villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe right now. James Spader as the voice of Ultron knocked it out of the park. What I loved about this movie is that the stakes get higher and higher with each confrontation the Avengers had with him.

    The other new characters to mention are Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff  played by Elizabeth Olsen. They had good chemistry together. I liked the Quicksilver in X-Men Days of Future Past a little better, but this one is still pretty good. The route they go with these two characters in somewhat unexpected, but I didn't mind it too much. I like when a movie can surprise me like that. Also as seen in one of the posters, Vision is in the movie played by Paul Bettany. I really liked him as well. It was interesting to see Paul Bettany do something besides Jarvis, and I thought he pulled it off very well.  

     I have two problems with the film. The creation of Ultron seemed a little rushed. I know Joss Whedon cut some scenes out. I read somewhere that the original cut of the movie was almost three hours. It's been confirmed that there will be an extended cut released on blu-ray. Hopefully that will resolve this issue. The second problem is that I was hoping for more set-up for Civil War at the end. The very last scene in the movie is somewhat of a set-up for it, but not as much as I wanted.  

     A few problems aside, I loved this movie. Needless to say stick around until the middle of the credits. The scene was one of my favorite post credit scenes. My friend and I stayed after that scene and there's nothing there. I'm going to give this movie 4.75 out of 5. These Avengers movies are the definition of summer fun at the movie theatre.