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| Year of first release: 2015 | |
| Director: Joss Whedon (Serenity) | |
| Actors: Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder), Chris Evans (Fantastic Four 1-2), Scarlett Johansson (Match Point), Samuel L. Jackson (Snakes on a Plane), Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), Jeremy Renner (The Bourne Legacy) | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Action, SF | |
| Conditions of visioning: 28.04.2015, 3D, CINEMA theater | |
| Synopsis: After the Avengers defeat a Hydra base and recover Loki's sceptre, they enjoy a well-earned rest, but Tony Stark (Downey Jr.) is designing an even more ultimate weapon: Ultron. | |
| Review: The action scene in the first ten minutes of the movie is as impressive as the climax would have been in any other movie ten years ago, and that sets the mood. I really feared I would be disappointed by Age of Ultron after appreciating The Avengers, or that I would be bored for 30 minutes in the middle of the 2h30 movie (like I did during Transformers 4) but fortunately that was not the case. I did sat back in my seat at some point but that break was welcome to anticipate the climactic last hour. The Special Effects are very good but the action confused sometimes, and the final weapon over-the-top. It is still only a Super-Hero movie (watch Birdman for a criticism of the genre), but I found that as in the first one the characters all have their specific temper and the dialogs are well written. I may appreciate it even more when watched in Blu-ray with sub-titles so that I catch all the jokes and details (Robert Downey Jr. does speak fast...). After an alien army in the first movie, it was a good idea for the screenplay to keep the story on Earth and vary the enemies. The fact that Ultron was created by Stark creates tension of course that feed the story. It is well integrated in the rest of Marvel Universe (including The Guardians of the Galaxy) and keeps on bringing consistency to it. It now seems to me pretty complete, but Marvel has already announced The Avengers 3 in two parts (money money...) as well as Thor 3, The Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Captain America 3, Black Panther, Captain Marvel and many more. We will never see the end of it... |
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Rating: 6 /10
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
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I just saw the movie in Cinemaxx Bremen, in original wiuthout subtitles. I agree that Robert Downey Jr speaks fast. I have not been impressed by the SFX. The choregraphy of Captain America is sometimes very kitsch. But the story is has some good and complex points. There is even kind of drama story with Natacha's dream and a love story between Natacha and Hulk. This prepares the third episode...
ReplyDeleteI had difficulty to get into the movie because I had to digest 30 minutes of trailers for all the upcoming Marvel movies. And there are a lot. Almost too many.
I would give a better rating as The winter soldier because of the story. 4/10.