Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Marvel’s most anticipated film of 2015, Age of Ultron definitely meets the expectations of the audience, but being such a large franchise movie, is that really enough?

The first glimpse into the movie and you’re introduced to an epic battle sequence featuring the avengers, satisfying the audience’s hunger to witness the super heroes in action. Continuing the tradition of Marvel’s franchise theme, Director Whedon continues the flashy and humorous action scenes, which the audience all has come to know and love.  But having such a frequent mixture recurring throughout multiple marvel franchises, it definitely has become much more boring. The film follows the same plot from the original ‘Avengers’ film, where the necessity to save the world no longer comes as a surprise to the superheroes, but as a daily job they need to do. Evidently, Director Whedon has made attempts to mimic the features that made the first movie so enjoyable and unique but definitely has not met the same standards.

Aside from the recurring themes, Age of Ultron has introduced twists to bring some freshness to the series. New members are added to the team as the movie progresses, keeping the audience on edge as they attempt to deconstruct their personalities, followed by the sparking of romantic interests between members within the group. Audiences also begin to learn more about existing members of the Avengers and their past, mainly focusing on Black Widow’s childhood environment and Hawkeye’s personal life that exists behind the superhero. The directors definitely deserve praise for doing so, as these two characters didn’t have many major roles within the first film, especially Hawkeye who was induced under the control of Loki most of the film.

Age of Ultron also attempts to create a deeper and more emotional sequence throughout the film but struggles to engage the audience. Members are brought back down to earth, especially Thor, where their human emotions take over and leave them mentally distraught. However balancing the emotional side with the presence of expected humour from the film definitely makes it more difficult for the audience to engage the deeper scenes thus leading to a period of boredom for the audience.

Overall, Age of Ultron does struggle to match the original movie and given that it is only the 2^nd installment of the Avenger’s franchise that attempted to adapt features from its first film, it definitely has reached a state of repetitiveness too early. Audiences simply don’t experience the same ‘wow’ factor they had from the fight sequences in the initial film, and attempting to mirror the first film definitely should have been avoided. Given the announcement of the final two part film of the third avengers series, it will be hard to avoid the world saving story line again given the sneak peek shown at the end of the 2^nd film but the directors need to change it up.