I rather enjoyed watching the Hulk duke it out with an over-sized Iron Man, especially with all the macho talk and testosterone-fueled posturing (turns out, size really does matter!) Other than a couple gems, the action in Age of Ultron fell well short of its predecessor. I could make a mini-list about everything wrong with the action scenes in this movie. Unfortunately, the action scenes don't improve matters. The wood-chopping was funny-there are lots of funny bits scattered about the film-and the dream sequences were interesting, but most of the slower moments were just boring. He's not at all scary (like he's supposed to be.) More on that later. Why not just turn around and beat up Ultron. Hiding out at Hawkeye's farm? Yeah, these guys don't even look beat up.
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The "lift Thor's hammer" scene is a good example of how to do humor in an action movie (though mostly everyone had already seen it thanks to the over-marketing campaign moviegoers have been subjected to.)īut many other slow scenes felt bogged down, and there was rarely a sense that our heroes were really in enough trouble to need to catch their breath in the first place. This works okay in Age of Ultron, but for some reason a lot of the slower scenes-not all, but a lot-just don't work at all, and serve only to muck up the film's momentum. It's pretty standard in action movies to sprinkle in slower moments, comic relief, and so forth in between the action to give everyone time to catch their breath. All these little touchy-feely distractions are used to slow down what's an otherwise action-packed adventure.Ģ. 'Age of Ultron' has a serious pacing problem. What's the point? Why do we need to humanize Hawkeye? Just give him more funny lines and let him shoot things with exploding arrows. This is an attempt to humanize him, one presumes, but it just feels.off. Meanwhile, Hawkeye, now questioning his relevance to the team (much as audiences did back when the first Avengers came out) reveals his wife and family to his more super-heroic pals. It's a weird little side plot that doesn't add anything but confusion to the story.
But that transforms weirdly, quickly, into an oddly forward Natasha Romanoff hitting on a Bruce Banner almost as confused as me.īy the end of the film, Banner is gone and Natasha is all bummed out, and the audience is pretty much unmoved. The movie constantly tries to tug at your heart-strings (but there are no strings on me!) and almost always fails to land a real emotional punch.īlack Widow and Hulk have a nice moment as she calms the "big guy" down.
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