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The issue I have with this movie is that it feels largely like action for actions sake. The film opens with a raid on a Hydra facility, which introduces Wanda and Pietro as two of three new Avengers joining the team in this movie. And then for reasons largely unexplained (I know theyre explained, but the movie does a poor job of it), Tony has more PTSD over events that he supposedly dealt with in Iron Man 3, and creates a robot to defend the world. But the robot, Ultron, goes crazy and determines that humanity is the only threat to Earth, and this happens so fast that his motivations are never given cause to build and explain themselves. Its like Tony Stark builds the movies villain, who is a villain solely to facilitate the plot of the movie. The stakes never feel developed enough to justify the level of hype this movie is supposed to inspire. Heck, even the face turn from Wanda/Pietro happens SO quickly that it feels tacked on. So, in essence, the only thing Age of Ultron has going for it is some kickass action, which again, is fine. Its cool, even. But this is just a very flat movie and lacks personality otherwise.

Lopen
"Hey, look at me. It's your fault, it's everyone's fault, who cares. Are you up for this? Are you? Look, I just need to know cause the city is flying. Ok, look, the city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense. But I'm going back out there cause it's my job. Ok, and I can't do my job and babysit. Doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. If you go out there, you fight and you fight to kill. Stay in here, you're good. I'll send your brother to come find you. But if you step out that door, you are an Avenger. All right, good chat."

That right there is the one good thing I have to say about Age of Ultron. And you know I'm all about positivity. So I figured I'd start with that.

My broader feeling on the movie is that Age of Ultron takes what many people who are down on Marvel movies call a weakness in the MCU writing and makes it an actual weakness. EVERYONE in the movie is a quip machine. While I disagree this is a problem with MCU writing in general, it does actually hurt Ultron because what makes MCU writing work is the villain is generally taking things seriously so there's still some gravitas to things. Ultron is joking right along with the heroes in this one. And yeah people are like "well it's cause he's got Tony's personality" and that ain't an excuse man. I can't possibly care about what's going on in this movie cause nobody in the movie does. It's just an endless string of explosions and banter that eventually concludes and is completely unnecessary viewing. I guess it introduces Vision and Scarlet Witch, but you can just skip this and watch Civil War instead. Just grating to watch for me.

Raka Putra
My least favorite Avengers movie for sure. It just didn't really sell the hype of seeing the Avengers together and Ultron was such a random villain, I feel. Like he came and went in the blink of an eye compared to Loki or Thanos. I don't have much else to say.

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