With a great movie comes great sequel expectations.
After the first Avenger movie made over 1billion dollars($1,518.6b for figures’ sake), Age of Ultron had big shoes to fill… but after stepping out of the Ultron’s screening, I was a little disappointed and wondered if this new entry will deliver…and here am not talking of box office. (That boat will sink in money.) I’m talking about keeping us (movie lovers) excited and still invested in this ever growing marvel universe. I write this article entirely because I have watched and loved movies since childhood. I am now a TV producer and talking film is something I do every single day. So why not share my thoughts on this box office buster.

A hero is expected to beat the bad guy and save the world or the girl or something? So what makes one hero more of a hero than other heroes? (Clark no hurt feelings ). The answer to that is ‘the villain our hero has to beat.’ The stronger and harder the villain is to beat the more a hero attains glory in our eyes.

Marvel introduced LOKI early in the first Thor movie and by Avengers we knew, felt and understood his villainous intentions. Sadly for ULTRON, he is created in five minutes and struggles to connect with us over the mind blowing action sequences, the twins’ debut (scarlet witch and Quicksilver), the long line-up of super heroes and a hot Scarlett Johansson kicking butt! In the end, as a movie goer I fail to see Ultron’s bad guy effect and see him as a cool idea on paper but missed the target on screen.

Don’t get wrong, Age of Ultron is a good movie but at this point or phase (as marvel calls it) it needed to be a classic and it failed for me and here is why. (in hope marvel works this out). The rush syndrome . In the first few minutes of Avengers: age of Ultron, Tony Stark gets a crazy idea of creating an AI to simplify the Avengers’ job (lazy people have great ideas) that gives birth to Ultron. In the next two minutes, Ultron is already terrorizing the Avengers and in the next, he has a collaboration with the Twins and has built a machine that can lift a town to space and he is presumably killed by Vision in next thirty or so.  If you think Quick Silver was fast think again.

They are not that connected. Remember when this was one of marvel’s selling points? How all movies are connected? Well Age of Ultron feels like a stand alone movie that comes and goes. Apart from having the same actors and characters and well the infinity stones..uh this movie doesn’t feel that connected. I wonder if Tony had started working on Ultron back in IRON MAN 3 and we had seen Ultron show signs of him manifesting into the terror he is supposed to be maybe this would have made a difference. (just thinking)

The twins. Readers of comic books might well be aware that The scarlet witch doesn’t join the Avengers till later but Marvel felt the urge to make  her a hero as soon as possible. This didn’t really establish her as a main avenger but a side kick who can wave her hands at objects and they fly or burst into tiny little pieces. I wonder if the Quicksilver’s fate would have been shared by her but she’s an awesome character and I just wish they had given her and us time to know her a little better on screen.

Are the Avengers exhausted? Maybe it’s Joss or the Avengers themselves but I could not stop Tony Stark’s words from echoing in my head that he was tired and wanted to go home. The whole movie felt tired of saving the world and probably our heroes need new motivation and not to simply be a 911 to world disaster.

Congested.Like most posters for Age of ultron, the movie suffered from congestion and thus most of the short comings I have talked about. I understand the need to do better and bigger but it’s a road to carefully take.

All said, I love comic movies and I hope ANT-MAN can be a fresh sunrise to the Marvel universe. Probably DC can be more cautious on wearing out the hero movie era and keep it interesting and fresh each time we step into cinemas. Age of Ultron is a fun movie with great action sequences and trust that you will need more popcorn.