Guy01
Since: Mar, 2015
06/22/2015 00:00:00
Exactly the same problems I had with this movie. Ultron is not a threat, he's a comedian with an army of paper mache robots. The Avengers don't even treat him like a problem, just an excuse to crack some jokes. Just so disappointing.
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Too much Whedon
Joss Whedon released a wonderful interview before the first Avengers where he discussed what was cut; basically he said that he took "himself" out of the movie.
This movie? Exactly the opposite.
Jokes are a great part of great action movies. They break up the tension and humanize our characters. But when you make a joke every ten seconds in every single action scene, you don't have any tension to break. Good jokes get made, but fail because they don't have room to breathe.
Worse, in a bizarre misstep, this extends to the villain of the piece. Ultron is not based on Tony Stark, or on any human template. Why the hell is he making weird, incredibly self-indulgent Joss Whedon jokes every five seconds? It was as if Joss Whedon simply wrote HIMSELF as the villain, and made no effort to justify it.
There's a love story this time! Between... Bruce Banner? And Black Widow? And Black Widow is portrayed as practically desperate. She constantly makes incredibly undignified advances. "A good man done me wrong," she says, pretending she's in a 40s movie for no reason other than that Whedon likes unnatural dialogue. It's unsubtle and out-of-character.
The last major problem is the absurdly ham-fisted misdirect. Spoilers ahead: Hawkeye doesn't die. And you will know that almost immediately, because Whedon throws every single cliche to foreshadow his death at you, incessantly throughout the film. It's arguably the most insulting statement Whedon has ever made to his audience (who he's pretty fond of insulting). He seems to genuinely think that a person can watch this movie and fall for the endless, obviously-fake "foreshadowing". It's just insulting. It's about as clever as the twist at the end of The Village. It's worse than stupidity - it's stupidity that thinks it's being clever.
The movie's strengths are those we've seen before: great performers, characters, and action. Watching Vision fly around, costume basically unchanged from the comics, it makes a nice contrast with DC's endlessly drab films.
I have no doubt Whedon made this movie this way to ensure he could leave The Avengers for good; as was his intent, I bid him good riddance.