If you are a
hardcore comic-book fan, you would know what to expect from a specific series,
and when. There will be moments of comfort shaken by the flashes of threatening
situation to the very existence of mankind. Team should be intact and as any of
the old-book sayings would recommend, ‘together’. Meanwhile, you can have a
romantic track between the two of leading members, a sentimental family-connection,
self-assured guys cooler than ice-crushes, a ‘mightier than ever’ evil force and
loads of pages carrying only action-words like ‘Boom’ ‘Bang’ ‘Crash’ ‘Smack’
written all over big & bold.
Marvel’s screen-adaptation
and a sequel to 2012’s super-hero flick THE AVENGERS, Joss Whedon’s AVENGERS:
AGE OF ULTRON too doesn’t dare to rule out on the basics and tries its best to
serve you ample portions of everything you read in the buffet menu. Tony Stark
[Robert Downey Jr.] known for inventing witty one-liners more than
scientifically viable gadgets and programs accidently brings an artificial intelligence
program into life, and ‘Ultron’ is now planning to extinct human race from
earth in order to save it. Initially, it [as Ultron is just another evolved operating
system, works by hacking and controlling dense information freely flowing in
the virtual world] gets hands of support from a speedster young kid with his
twin sister- a mind-manipulating freak seeking personal revenge from Stark. She
can easily invade any mind and slide them to a complete opposite track with
corrupted visions in the head.
AVENGERS: AGE OF
ULTRON gives plenty of space for an entertaining ride having your favorite
superheroes by your side. In one particular ‘party’ scene, everyone else tries
to lift the immovable hammer of Thor [Chris Hemsworth]. Thor looks quite
confident of his caliber and the hammer’s built until Bruce Banner- the hulk
[Mark Ruffalo] enters the game. Bruce couldn’t do much but succeeded in shaking
Thor’s confidence for a moment. Don’t miss his face! In other, everyone in the
team pulls Captain America’s leg for his one of early instructions to watch out
for the ‘language’. It all starts in the beginning and keeps coming at regular
interval but so incredibly, you are never done with the joke. The film also
explores the softer track between Natasha [Scarlett Johansson] and the
rage-driven green monster in a man’s body, Bruce [Ruffalo]. The eagerness of
being alike mixed with the sadness of uncertainty in the nature of their
relationship is heartbreaking. So is the sequence where Stark’s artificial intelligence
program JARVIS gets terminated by the evil Ultron. After Johansson’s talking
operating system in Spike Zonze’s HER, this was another heartfelt sequence
involving some machine.
Whedon creates a world full
of explosions, destruction and skyscrapers getting melt down to dirt. The action
sequences especially the ones having all the superheroes fighting in
slow-motion and in one frame are a treat to watch, but what lacks the most is the
depth in the story. I wish the plot gets more thickened by some cleverness and
hadn’t just decided to bigger the scale. It’s scenic. It’s thrilling. It’s pure
fun. Don’t expect anything out of the box or any unpredicted surprise in the
tale! AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON is the latest in a popular series and stays the
same. Spectacular but standard! [3/5]
