Director:Joss Whedon
Writers:Joss Whedon, Stan Lee (based on the Marvel comics
Storyline
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth's Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to the Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for a global adventuremovie Reviews
Avengers: Age of Ripping Off Ultraman
About the only thing
"Avengers: Age of Ultron" has in common with what most people consider a
movie is that it was photographed on silver halide coated film stock.
All other similarities end there. This film is an attempt by Jock
Wheadon to capture a dream, or more precisely, capture how our memories
and subconscious impressions shape and influence our dreams. It's an
ambitious undertaking for sure, and I'm sure its not wholly successful.
The setting, the abstarct interior of a metallic structure, is rendered
in a dark, mysterious and foreboding way. Much time is spent early in
the film establishing a mood of bleak eeriness through a maddeningly
slow montage of the Avengers's HQ and its various architectural details
accompanied by funereal pipe organ music. Eventually, the Avengers
themselves begin to interact and what follows is best described as a
series of moments, some related to a central theme, some complete
non-sequiturs, but none of them add up to any sort of a logical
narrative. But logic is not the intention of Wheadon, he is attempting
to demonstrate how moods and emotions can color and dramatize our
memories of even rather simple and common events. At least that is this
reviewer's interpretation, and with a film as opaque and abstractly
constructed as this one, all viewers will have their own. The film can
only be recommended to serious students of comicbook lore and history
and to the most enthusiastic fans of avant-garde American cinema. The
film is not the least bit entertaining, requires enormous patience from
the viewer, and much of it is just plain dull.
