Avengers: Age of ultron

Avengers: Age of Ultron Review: Filmmakers and film enthusiasts are always looking forward to the latest ground breaking technology to enhance the movie going experience. Marvel Studios has accomplished this but instead of finding the new tech that will change the way films are made they have redefined the term "movie franchise". Since 2008 with the start of Jon Favreau's Iron Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron is the 11th film that is part of Marvel Studio's "shared" Cinematic Universe serving as a sequel to 2012's Avengers and to several other films that feature the characters individually. Concerned that the Avengers will fail at protecting the world from extraterrestrial threats, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) creates an artificial intelligence program named Ultron that will "place a suit of armor around the world". Unbeknownst to his fellow Avengers and with the help of his friend Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) Stark starts running tests to bring the program online, which results in Ultron (James Spader) becoming self aware. Instead of executing his intended purpose, Ultron realizes that the extinction of the human race is best to bring about a new evolution of sentient machinery. These events throw the Avengers into turmoil creating distrust in the group and pit them against an enemy that knows more about them then they know about each other. The largest subplot in the film includes two new characters, Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen). Bent on revenge for the death of their parents due to weapons created by Tony Stark's company, "the twins" form an alliance with Ultron to defeat the Avengers physically and tear them apart mentally. Age of Ultron is a good movie. It takes large pieces of information built over 10 films and lines up the events that will play out in upcoming films that will be released over the next four years. Ultimately it suffers where most comic book movies suffer - underdevelopment of the villain. Marvel has masterfully built their heroes. The characters (and the actors that play them) have become icons in popular culture. Sadly, the same can't be said for their villains with the exception of Thor's Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and the excellent Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Nofrio) on Daredevil, which airs on Netflix. Marvel has created films that sit on the top of the genre and serve as relevant social commentary. The Age of Ultron sits somewhere in the middle of the 10 others. FINAL RATING: 3 out of 4 Stars