Age of Ultron Review

*** Spoilers Ahead ***

   Well now that it has been about a week since the movie came out, lets do a review!

    I really did love this movie, however I think Winter Soldier is still my favorite at this point. 

The movie started off with all of the Avengers together and working as a team. As a huge Hawkeye fan, I was super happy that he got a bigger role and was able to take his rightful place on the team. The new characters, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were introduced pretty early on in the beginning scene. Nothing will beat X-Men: DOFP's scene with their version of Quicksilver. In this interpretation of him we get to know more of his personality which is something we did not get in X-Men. Scarlet Witch has a very interesting set of skills that will prove to be very harmful to the team in the future. 

    The appearance of Ultron happened pretty much the exact way that it did in all of the trailers that have been shown. The voice does not sound as robot like as I had imagined. It wasn't bad, ,just a little bit unexpected. I have to admit that having Ultron as the villain was a little over used. The plot was pretty much, bad guys wants to change the world but in reality he wants to destroy it. It's something that has been done before. The addition of Andy Serkis's character in the middle of the movie was a little strange. If he plays a bigger role in the MCU, you wouldn't know it by his scene in this movie. 

    A big surprise for me was that fact that Hawkeye is married with 3 children. I don't really keep up with the comics as much as I would like to, so this came as sort of a shock to me. It didn't really add anything to the story line of the movie but it was nice to get more back story on Hawkeye. They really gave him a lot of attention in this movie and I feel that the character really deserved that. Another thing that was a little bit of a shock was the Bruce/Natasha love story. This was kind of annoying and really not needed in the movie at all. The MCU has done a really good job of not focusing on a love story in their movies. I felt that AOU, wasted a little to much time on this story. It really kind of annoyed me whenever the two were on the screen together.

    The last major shock in the movie was towards the very end. Quicksilver dies while saving Hawkeye and a young boy. I kind of already knew that someone was going to die in this movie. I also figured that it would be one of the newer characters. However, as with most deaths in the MCU I do not really think that Quicksilver is dead. He was resurrected by his sister in the comics so there really is no reason to think it can't happen in the movies. 

   Another new character that I forgot to mention was The Vision. He turned out to be quite complex and interesting. There was not enough movie to really give him much screen time. What he did have was very important to this movie and future movies. 

 

  The end of credits scene, which wasn't at the very end, was not as great as one would come to expect. It had Thanos and the empty Infinity Gauntlet. Which, if you know anything about the infinity stones or the future movies, did not tell you anything new. We have know since Avenegers that Thanos wants the stones. All this clip really showed was that he will make a bigger appearance in future movies. We still have not seen 2 of the 6 stones after all so more is to come from Thanos. 

   I know that I had a few negatives about this movie but overall I really did love it. It was much funnier than the one before it and really any of the other movies. Seeing all of the Avengers together again was really quite exciting. This time around Hawkeye's role in the Avengers makes much more sense and he is seen as a very important part of the group.