Breaking Views on Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron - Movie Review

Joss Whedon is back with the biggest real & real life 'super hero' ensemble ever in Hollywood history, the sequel to critic darling & box office juggernaut, The Avengers. SHIELD has fallen (CAP 2 & Agents of SHIELD) and the film begins with the Avengers reuniting to capture Loki's scepter from HYDRA. To avoid any such future mishaps the 'mad scientists' Banner &  Stark decide to use the scepter, befor Thor takes it back to Asgard and create Stark's pet project 'Ultron' a robot army to help them defend Earth. But as always it goes wrong and creates the AI super villain 'Ultron' voiced by James Spader. 'Ultron' is the evil version of stark himself and tsince lack a body and travels via the net, makes it even more difficult for the Avengers to handle. Adding to the woes are the 'Enhanced' twins 'Quick Silver' & 'Scarlet Witch' - the fast & the Weird one. All hell breaks loose as Ultron manages a stock of 'Vibranium' the hardest metal on earth, thing which CAP's shield is made of, and starts building his own Robot army to 'apparently' save Earth by wiping out the entire population. So how will Avengers tackle the enemy this time and save the world forms the rest of the tale.

As a film it might not quite match upto the first one, the first one was one of a kind and blew every one's mind, so it was obvious that it will be a hell of a job to even match up to that. One of the biggest flaws of the film is the Villain, which was supposed to be one of the best ever, menancing, cunning etc. If not for the outstanding job over mic by James Spader (Watch 'The Blaclist' to see the actor in action') the character would have fall flat, thanks to lack of character development. For those who are not familiar with the comic book world, this might just feel like a copy/remake of Shankar's magnum opus, 'Enthiran' .Apart from such minor flaws the film still entertains and may be more than that for Comic book fanatics.

The film is full of humorous one liners, a Marvel specialty. But unlike last time Iron Man & Hulk takes a back seat. But the scene in which they collide is awesome, a true 'every penny worthy' moment. Hawk Eye gets more screen time and punch lines this time and it worked out well too. Black Widow too gets a light thrown in to her past. We also finally gets to see 'Jarvis' in his 'bodly' form. The 'Enhanced twins' also gets their own screen time, even though it doesn't end well for one of them. The Quick Silver do gets some unique moments, but still the Bryan singer version in 'Xmen Days of Future Past' stands tall with that one iconic scene.  The film also threw snippets into the future Marvel movies like 'Black Panther' CAP 3: Civil war'  etc. The new Avengers team which as per reports will fill in for the the current team in 'Avengers: Infinity Wars Part 1' also gets teased at the end.

The action sequences are awesome. But the cinematography fails to capture the entire thing in grandeur, makes us often wonder, what the hell is happening ala Transformers like. VFX is as always top notch. Back ground score was Okay.

I n all Avengers Age of Ultron is your typical Hollywood summer blockbuster. Don't expect a 'Dark Knight', its for Comic book - Super hero movie aficionados and offers everything a Marvel movie promises.

Rating: 3.5/5




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The end credit scene features Thanos, once again and he is getting ready to hunt for the 'Infinity stones' all by himself, and the wait for 'Infinity Wars' begin.......

Captain America: The Winter Soldier - End Credit Scenes Explained !

Adding End credit sequences is a phenomenon mad popular by Marvel Movies. The way they built up 'Avengers' through end credit sequences via stand alone installments is known to every movie buff. Now a days people are as much as or more excited about these teasers as the main picture. Only Iron Man 3 in the Marvel cinematic universe didn't have a significant end credit scene.

Coming to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, its the final stop before the mega multi super hero starrer sequel Avengers 2 and there are 2 Easter eggs - one mid credit scene and another end credit scene.

[Marvel's next release 'Guardians of the Galaxy' is said to be a stand alone film, eventhough we get to see a character from GOTG universe in the Thor 2 end credit scene, which might be leading to Avengers 3, involving Infinity Gem and Thanos, the purple guy you see in Avengers end credits]

 Spoiler Alert - If You Haven't watched the movie yet, proceed at your own risk.


Mid Credit Scene - The Important One

This was directed by Joss Whedon, Director of Avengers, Avengers 2.

Samuel L Jackson towards the end of the movie says HYDRA threat is not totally eliminated and there are members working still in different parts of the world. We get to one such alive and kicking HYDRA bunker in an undisclosed location where we get to see General Baron Wolfgang von Strucker a Nazi super soldier and one of the remaining HYDRA leaders, showing a colleague Loki's Scepter which was lost after 'New York incident'. Then he talks about the 'Age of Miracles' being upon us and introduce us to new important characters, Quick Silver & Scarlet Witch, who are going to play important role in Avengers 2: Age of Ultron. While QS is running around the small cell he has been kept it, hitting the walls each time, SW is playing with some sort of cubes, making them float in air and move around and finally crash agaist each other before we get to the remaining credits.

Qucik Silver & Scarlet Witch are twins, muants and more importantly children of 'Magneto' from X-Men comics. Since the rights for 'Magneto' and term 'mutants' are with Fox don't expect anything of that sorts in Avengers 2 [another version of Quick silver will also be seen in X Men Days of Future Past].

Quick Silver is blessed with super speed and is be played (in Marvel Cinematic Universe) by Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Godzilla, Kick-ASS). Scarlet Witch, who has tele kinetic abilities, will be played by Elizabeth Olsen (Godzilla, Old Boy).

Avengers: Age of Ultron Concept Art 

From the sets of  Avengers: Age of Ultron

End Credit Scene

We are back to the Smithsonian museum (shown in the beginning). We get to see Winter Soldier in normal human attire, listening to the commentary via PAS about CAP and World War 2. He also spots the Bucky Barnes banner, throwing more lights into his past that has been wiped clean from his memories by HYDRA. We gets a close up shot of WS, with dramatic music in the background, before the scene cuts to Marvel Logo and the message 'Captain America' will return in 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'. 

Nick Fury is touring Europe to flush out and eliminate remaining HYDRA members, while CAP and Falcon is going after WS, CAP's former friend Bucky Barnes. Will that be the story of CAP 3, tough to tell at this stage.