They’re on a raid to retrieve a powerful alien scepter that the pseudo-political cult HYDRA has been weaponizing since the first Avengers film. ![]() The story explodes into action right away with the original team: Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), and Thor (Chris Hemsworth). Beneath the capes, behind the punches, even underwriting the witty banter is a story not about the strength of superheroes fighting unfathomable evil, but about the strength of people battling their tangible fallen natures. There’s a lot of action and director Joss Whedon doesn’t leave enough pauses to process it all it provides little backstory, so newcomers to the Marvel Cinematic Universe might get confused without context it’s much darker than Marvel’s previous installments.īut the film has an incredible ambition to be much, much more than the sum of its parts. ![]() James Spader in ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’Īs a sci-fi flick, it’s got some faults.
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