Let's face it: Marvel's superhero-making machine is running out of steam. Yes, the whole project is hugely entertaining. But again, we have 9/11-level city destructions, dizzying close-up street chases, Avenger in-fightings, additions of one or two (in this case three) new Avengers, and actors accumulating from prior movies that have become too numerous to count, in an unnecessarily overlong film. There's even a slightly original Scarlet Witch subplot, that perhaps mistakenly overshadows the main Ultron plot. I was expecting more than just an Avengers/Captain America 2/Iron Man 3 rehash. Unless they've really run out of ideas.
Mo says:
What was the Scarlet Witch subplot? I was so busy trying to figure out all the different ingredients used to make Vision that I missed that.
ReplyDeleteHaha. I'm referring to each of the Avengers having flashbacks when the Scarlet Witch messed up their minds, and I thought the story was onto something original (especially the one with Julie Delpy as the person who brainwashed Black Widow), but then they never followed up on it. I guess it was there just to make the 3-hour movie time negotiated in the contract!
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