Do you plan to watch Avengers: Age of Ultron ? Yes, you as well as a sizable population of the earth. The last outing of these superheroes -- Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye -- amassed a mind-boggling $1.5 billion internationally and if anything, the latest film is likely to shatter that record.
For those who are catching this review on Saturday, the film has made Rs 10.8 crore in India on Day I, three times of what Avengers did. This film promises you more of everything, superheroes included -- Quicksilver, Vision and Scarlet Witch as well as the Hawk and War Machine are the new additions this time round.
Joss Whedon and his team of Avengers -- in spandex and metal -- will make this two-and-a-half hours film worth your money. They will fight and they will banter, they will level cities and angst about the darkness in their past and present, and they will romance. In short, they will give you bang (literally) for your buck.
For those who are catching this review on Saturday, the film has made Rs 10.8 crore in India on Day I, three times of what Avengers did. This film promises you more of everything, superheroes included -- Quicksilver, Vision and Scarlet Witch as well as the Hawk and War Machine are the new additions this time round.
Joss Whedon and his team of Avengers -- in spandex and metal -- will make this two-and-a-half hours film worth your money. They will fight and they will banter, they will level cities and angst about the darkness in their past and present, and they will romance. In short, they will give you bang (literally) for your buck.
The Avengers was the film that made me fall in love with Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. It was the scene when Agent Coulson died, and our comic book heroes turned on each other — backbiting, blaming, lashing out as their center collapsed. After five and a half movies’ worth of comic book acrobatics and space villains, we were suddenly watching just a handful of scared people in a room, acting all too human.
And I cared.
Given that we were dealing with larger-than-life characters like Thor and Captain America, it was nothing short of a miracle. But that one scene elevated an entire franchise, and $1.5 billion later, Joss Whedon had cemented the Marvel empire as a blockbuster factory. More importantly, the film's colossal success allowed the studio to take some chances, and movies like Captain America: Winter Soldierand Guardians of the Galaxy have since shown off unique styles and approaches that step outside the confines of the ordinary comic book movie, elevating the films even further.
So with Whedon returning for Avengers: Age of Ultron, my expectation was that he would up the ante once again, tackling those high expectations by uniting the disparate threads of the Marvel universe and showing everyone how it’s really done.
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