Avengers Age of Ultron Review (Spoiler Free)

Finally the Avengers have returned to our screens and it was well worth the wait.

Avengers: Age of Ultron brings back all of your favourite Avengers including some new faces such as Aaron Taylor Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and James Spader as the title villain. So what you probably want to know is if Avengers Age of Ultron is as good as the first. To be honest at the moment I don’t know and will have to watch it a few more times to figure that out. The fact that I am even considering it hopefully demonstrates the quality of this film.

Avengers AOU takes the action, humour and brilliant character moments from the first avengers and pushes them further than ever before. If you have seen the trailers that much is clear as AOU takes earths mightiest heroes to multiple locations for some of the most jaw dropping action scenes I have ever seen. Newcomers Scarlet Witch (Olsen) and Quicksilver (Johnston) are fresh takes on this universe as they are fighting against the Avengers for a large proportion of this film and Scarlet Witch in particular causes some havoc for the team. The best new character introduced however is Ultron himself. As a huge fan of Ultron in the comics I wondered how they would give personality to a machine however the minds at Marvel surpassed all my expectations giving us a character as relentless and terrifying as the Winter Soldier but with a likeable personality comparable with Loki. It is almost unheard of in a film when the villain has some of the funniest lines especially a film with Robert Downey Jr. Even though his methods are horrifying you can sort of understand where Ultron is coming from in his need to cleanse the world.

The returning cast are all fantastic however for me the standout was Hawkeye who gets a much larger role in AOU after he was left short changed in the first outing. A love story between Black Widow and Bruce banner has seemingly came from nowhere and initially I wasn’t a fan of the idea however Ruffalo and Johansson chemistry onscreen made me actually buy into it towards the middle of the film. Captain America has a more central role than he did in the first film and really shows that even though Stark may be the loud guy Cap is 100% the leader of the Avengers. On the topic of Iron Man I really though t he would have a more prominent role in the battle against Ultron however without going into spoilers there is another character who fights Ultron a lot more than Stark ever does.

In terms of negatives I am really just nit-picking as there wasn’t really anything which stood out as bad. There is a small period of the film where Thor vanishes to do his own little mission with his friend Dr Selvig which did take me out the film slightly even though I understand why the scene was there. On other small nit-pick is the ending of the film and this is something which I have noticed in quite a few big blockbusters recently, the film ends rather abruptly. Imp not asking for a Return of the King 30 minute ending but too many big action films go from one massive all-encompassing action scene to credits in two minutes and in Avengers AOU in particular I felt like this was a common though after speaking to people after the screening. As I said small nit-picks. Avengers: Age of Ultron is everything I wanted and I can’t wait to go and see it again.

9.5/10