I’m going to add myself into the ranks of the ‘most hated’ on the world of the Internet with this review.
There are as many dedicated and devoted Marvel fans out there as there are Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift acolytes would only just stop short of physical abuse if you criticise their god of choice.
I fully admit I do not particular like many comic-book adaptations after the initial glut of films. The originals were fun and interesting and at the time ‘newish’. Now we are inundated with them, if it’s not vampires or zombies it blooming superheroes. Nevertheless, I approached Age of Ultron with an open mind. I like Mark Ruffalo he always gives good value for money and Captain America was a quirky and fun hero when his film originally came out. Plus of course Josh Whedon is an innovative and generally good script writer and film maker, so it could be okay.
The opening fighty, jumpy, quipy start to the film is supposed to fire you up from the get go. The trouble is I’ve seen it so many times now that the jump cuts, leaping back flip action is now so overdone that these eye-popping and frankly confusing scenes are actually dull. I’m sure if I had been tired I would have fallen asleep among the explosions, crashes and shouting. Each star has to has his or her little action scene, they each have to have their irritating quip and each one has to save another one at some point or another. It must be in the contracts. I would imagine there was quite few egos shaped the action in this film.
There is so much CGI in this film that I’m not sure the actors only had about a few weeks of filming each. As with a lot of ‘action CGI’ it all appears weightless to me and in some places cartoon-like. It detracts from the film.
After a while I couldn’t tell which film I was watching and worst of all I didn’t really care about any of the characters. I mean none of them are going to die and if Ultron defeats them and destroys humankind then that is the end of the series and I know there is another film after this one.
I am led to believe there are in-jokes and pointers to other parts of Marvel’s canon but as I’m not into that they were wasted. Some of Josh Whedon sharp and snappy one liners were genuinely funny but a lot of it was tiringly misplaced too. The acting in most cases was good and Rob Lowe’s Tony Stark who usually rubs me up the wrong way was actually a bit toned down for this film but his all-pervading brilliance where he seems to only need a night to invent anything and appears to need little to no help is just – well plan silly. Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner was both too jokey and wimpy and the Hulk seemed to be neutered from the uncontrollable rage machine I remember. Scarlett Johansson showed her incredible range of playing well…. Scarlett Johansson, she just seems the same in every film to me - clearly I have a problem with her which I am happy to concede is all down to me. [I don’t find her particularly sexy either]. Jeremy Renner was in the film, I saw him, but that chap with the arrows is the lamest Avenger ever. The only main characters that seemed to connect with me were Thor and Captain America played by Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans.
The super-dooper twins were plan annoying and boring in equal amounts.
None of the characters seemed to develop beyond Arrow-man having a secret family, I was happy to see Linda Cardellini from Freaks and Geeks though.
So all in all this was just explosions and fighting spliced with quips, jokes and exposition split equally between characters for contractual and fan favourite reasons.
The world of comic book is not a dead tome to me. I loved Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America and the original Iron Man but generally I am left unmoved by what is supposed to be exciting and nail-biting action on the screen. I feel jaded by it. I have recently seen Deadpool and that I did enjoy but after reading this review it is obvious why I did.
More will love this than hate it. I don't hate it but it is just tiring, so very tiring.
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2016-06-26T15:10:06Z
I’m going to add myself into the ranks of the ‘most hated’ on the world of the Internet with this review.
There are as many dedicated and devoted Marvel fans out there as there are Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift acolytes would only just stop short of physical abuse if you criticise their god of choice.
I fully admit I do not particular like many comic-book adaptations after the initial glut of films. The originals were fun and interesting and at the time ‘newish’. Now we are inundated with them, if it’s not vampires or zombies it blooming superheroes. Nevertheless, I approached Age of Ultron with an open mind. I like Mark Ruffalo he always gives good value for money and Captain America was a quirky and fun hero when his film originally came out. Plus of course Josh Whedon is an innovative and generally good script writer and film maker, so it could be okay.
The opening fighty, jumpy, quipy start to the film is supposed to fire you up from the get go. The trouble is I’ve seen it so many times now that the jump cuts, leaping back flip action is now so overdone that these eye-popping and frankly confusing scenes are actually dull. I’m sure if I had been tired I would have fallen asleep among the explosions, crashes and shouting. Each star has to has his or her little action scene, they each have to have their irritating quip and each one has to save another one at some point or another. It must be in the contracts. I would imagine there was quite few egos shaped the action in this film.
There is so much CGI in this film that I’m not sure the actors only had about a few weeks of filming each. As with a lot of ‘action CGI’ it all appears weightless to me and in some places cartoon-like. It detracts from the film.
After a while I couldn’t tell which film I was watching and worst of all I didn’t really care about any of the characters. I mean none of them are going to die and if Ultron defeats them and destroys humankind then that is the end of the series and I know there is another film after this one.
I am led to believe there are in-jokes and pointers to other parts of Marvel’s canon but as I’m not into that they were wasted. Some of Josh Whedon sharp and snappy one liners were genuinely funny but a lot of it was tiringly misplaced too. The acting in most cases was good and Rob Lowe’s Tony Stark who usually rubs me up the wrong way was actually a bit toned down for this film but his all-pervading brilliance where he seems to only need a night to invent anything and appears to need little to no help is just – well plan silly. Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner was both too jokey and wimpy and the Hulk seemed to be neutered from the uncontrollable rage machine I remember. Scarlett Johansson showed her incredible range of playing well…. Scarlett Johansson, she just seems the same in every film to me - clearly I have a problem with her which I am happy to concede is all down to me. [I don’t find her particularly sexy either]. Jeremy Renner was in the film, I saw him, but that chap with the arrows is the lamest Avenger ever. The only main characters that seemed to connect with me were Thor and Captain America played by Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans.
The super-dooper twins were plan annoying and boring in equal amounts.
None of the characters seemed to develop beyond Arrow-man having a secret family, I was happy to see Linda Cardellini from Freaks and Geeks though.
So all in all this was just explosions and fighting spliced with quips, jokes and exposition split equally between characters for contractual and fan favourite reasons.
The world of comic book is not a dead tome to me. I loved Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America and the original Iron Man but generally I am left unmoved by what is supposed to be exciting and nail-biting action on the screen. I feel jaded by it.
I have recently seen Deadpool and that I did enjoy but after reading this review it is obvious why I did.
More will love this than hate it. I don't hate it but it is just tiring, so very tiring.