Avengers: Age of Ultron Review

[Editor’s Note: All spoilers will be marked.] There’s two ways you can go about reviewing Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. Your first choice is to step upon the pedestal that is pure objectivity. Or so you think. Due to human nature, the best you can really do is be around 95 percent objective, after years of practice, and act like the other five percent didn’t happen. You could objectively say that Daredevil (2003) had some good ideas, but lacked proper execution. But we all know that it just kind of sucked and wasted Michael Clarke Duncan’s great portrayal of Wilson Fisk before D’Onofrio ever took a razor to his scalp. Your other choice is to let your fandom show, because this is a movie we’ve all been waiting on for 4 years now, but still be honest about what you see. Given that this is a website geared towards nerds, written by nerds, you can pretty much guess what direction this is going in.

Avengers: Age of Ultron was everything I expected. It may not have been a face-melting display of all things awesome, but it had enough to drop jaws on a number of occasions. The most enjoyable things of The Avengers were present in its sequel: the ensemble, the charming villain, the combat and the hilarity. There were also some new tricks thrown in to keep things interesting. Age of Ultron sees the return of our favorite Marvel heroes as they try and take care of loose ends from the events of the first film. After being shown just how vulnerable Earth truly is to creatures beyond …