#THE AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON KICKASS MOVIE#

But even though comics readers know theyвЂ™re destined to join the good guys, Whedon doesnвЂ™t send them there via an easy route, or undersell their reluctance to join a team funded by and featuring a weapons merchant partly responsible for turning their country into a hellhole. They both evolve from credible threats to some of the most powerful beings on the planet to allies over the course of the film. Wanda has the ability to cloud minds and otherwise alter reality Pietro moves faster than any human alive. That continues after the appearance of Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Pietro Maximoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), a pair of super-powered Sokovian twins with a grudge against Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). They donвЂ™t stay in that good place, but Whedon lets viewers share the teamвЂ™s pleasure as they conductВ the opening raid on a HYDRA base with power, precision, and more than a little affectionate esprit de corps. The Avengers begin the film in a good place, working together to bring down the bad guys and playing off each otherвЂ™s strengths. Yet the way it plays off the accumulated knowledge of all those earlier adventures matters a lot less than the way returning writer-director Joss Whedon uses previous developements as tools with which to build a story about heroism, teamwork, the persistence of ideals in the face of despair-and the fragility of all of the above.

#THE AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON KICKASS MOVIE#

In a sense, this is the movie Marvel Studios has been training audiences to watch over the course of the 10 previous movies. The scriptВ assumesВ viewers know what happened in the last movie, whatвЂ™s up with S.H.I.E.L.D., and so on. Avengers: Age Of Ultron doesnвЂ™t have to worry about that, nor does it feel the need to spend too much time explaining the status quo of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the film opens. The first Avengers film had to set up a fairly elaborate plot while putting all the players into place and introducing them to one another-and sometimes the audience, given that Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) had only had cameos in previous films,В and Bruce Banner was now played by Mark Ruffalo instead of Edward Norton. Opening with a long, unbroken shot that follows first one Avenger, then another, then all of them together as they race through the forest outside an Eastern European fortress in the fictional, war-torn country of Sokovia, it moves as if unburdened by the need to explain everything. Avengers: Age Of Ultron wastes no time getting started.

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