AVENGERS: Age of Ultron

All superhero movies have one message to give; in a fight between good and evil, good prevails. But Avengers: Age of Ultron brings another side of the story to light. Evil is born, not always, out of evil intentions. In this case, Tony Stark aka Iron Man, in his attempt to create a global peace keeping program through artificial intelligence creates a very powerful and a very dangerous, you can say, program- Ultron. Now Ultron who was created with the purpose of peace cannot distinguish between saving the world and destroying it. However, he wanted to destroy the world so that a new world could emerge where humans would have a chance to rebuild and not make the same mistakes so, were his intentions really evil? This concept of destroying the world so that humans can start a new has also been explored in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Thus, evil is not always evil to everyone. But what all these superhero movies try to protect is humans. They reinforce, again and again, the idea that humans are worth saving; that there is grace in our mistakes and hope for us to improve; that the chaos we create is the only place that order can emerge. And so is the idea behind Avengers: Age of Ultron. 

As Ultron works towards world destruction, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow need to find a way to stop him and fight their worst fears. On this global quest, new alliances are made with the Maximoff twins and a new hero is born; the Vision, who yields the power of one of the infinity stones. 

The Avengers: Age of Ultron is an exciting movie which not only deals with fighting the demons of the world but also fights the demons within us. Thus we go on an emotional journey with these characters and feel what they are going through and a lot of times find ourselves identifying with them. After all, you don’t need superpowers to be superheroes. In this movie we see the human side of these heroes, what pains them, how they deal with it and how even they make mistakes.

As for the villain, Ultron is a program and thus makes multiple copies of himself and gets into every electronic in this tech savvy world. So, he is daunting and invisible at first. The way he says “I had strings, but now I’m free. There are no strings on me” gives him a creepy edge. However, I felt that Ultron looked like a mild copy of the sentinels from X-Men: Days of Future Past. But the sentinels were scarier than Ultron. So I would say that he was an okayish villain. 

However, throughout the movie there aren’t a lot of moments of tension or fear due to the constant one liners cracked by the entire Avengers team. Tony Stark is known for his one liners as a way to avoid the terror he is feeling but every other character, even Ultron, cracking jokes seems to take out the ‘world is about to end’ factor out of the movie. Another drawback is that the movie moves too fast and sometimes the chain of emotions is broken. We can’t completely feel the heart break of what the avengers have gone through because we don’t get the time to comprehend it. Some scenes leave the audience saying ‘what?’ and not in a good way. 

All in all, Avengers: Age of Ultron is a movie worth watching with an amazing cast, amazing acting and amazing special effects. However, if you like to sit at the edge of your seat and bite your nails off with suspense and thrill, I believe you will be a tad bit disappointed.