Nerds That Geek Movie Review – ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’

Written by Shae Rufe

I will never forget how much hype surrounded Avengers: Age of Ultron. It was advertised as an event movie and I bought into it since I was expecting a film that would blow me away. Guys, this movie is everything I wanted it to be and more. I can’t speak for everyone’s opinion on the matter. However, I will take you through a review of it personally.

Now, this movie holds no bars as it jumps straight into action. Our team is busy taking down HYDRA bases! Which may not have been eluded to in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D….it totally was. Coulson is awesome, but sadly, not in this film. I know, I know, I was sad too. But he comes back in Captain Marvel! So, taking down HYDRA is no easy task. The base in question holds the biggest HYDRA boss still alive, Strucker. He seems to be the one who has been curiously experimenting on people; enhancing them for various purposes. Wanda and Pietro Maximoff seem to be the only gifted subjects to survive the experimentations. With the base under attack, the twins leave to defend it and fight our Avengers. The fight gets Hawkeye injured badly, but thankfully he lives! While the majority of our team is busy, Iron Man and Captain America, head inside the base. Captain captures Strucker, and Iron Man finds a Chitauri monster in a room…he’s soon sucked into a strange dream like hallucination thanks to the abilities of the Scarlet Witch, A.K.A. Wanda. Strange visions of his friends and team-mates lying dead in a heap while the Chitauri invade through a space portal, lead to some rather rash decisions. Snapping out of it, Tony takes Loki’s scepter, the objective of this mission.

The twins are on the loose and the Avengers are back home, safe and sound. Tony and Bruce get to work on building Ultron. Is this a bad idea? Yes…yes it is. Good intentions often lead to catastrophic results. Tony believes that Ultron can bring world peace. With an artificial intelligent being protecting the world, the Avengers won’t even be needed. Loki’s scepter holds the key to them building Ultron, and well, we all know this won’t end well. Still, Bruce helps Tony break into the scepter, as Jarvis has sensed a program of sorts. Originally, it fails, so Tony and Bruce leave it be…and then, something happens. Ultron comes to life. Inexplicably, he wakes up as the program Tony worked so hard to build. And in moments, Ultron has learned everything about our Avengers and takes the time to tear Jarvis apart.

The team is having a good time, taking turns trying to lift Thor’s hammer. The only one to even get it to budge slightly is Steve, which isn’t surprising. But none can lift it. It’s here a scrapped Iron Man suit hobbles into the room and decides it’s the perfect time to make himself known. He’s Ultron, and he’s here to help humans evolve, because they can’t survive otherwise. More suits arrive and there’s an all-out fight that leads to massive destruction, and a room full of angry superheroes demanding answers. Tony confesses to building Ultron, which doesn’t go over very well considering. Shortly after, they find all the files and records they kept digitally were wiped clean. Thankfully, Strucker had a lot of paper files. That trail leads them to a ship and a very wanted thief that deals in selling Vibranium. Ultron and the twins get there first, however, and take all they want…well, Ultron does while the twins fight our Avengers. Quicksilver’s name lives up to expectations, and Scarlet Witch has no problems making each Avenger hallucinate some awful fears. All but Hawkeye, who stuns her with an electrical shock straight to the head. Don’t mess with the guy who’s already been brainwashed once. Bits of Natasha’s past are shown to us, as well was a warped future in Thor’s mind. Bruce Hulks out and decides it’s the perfect time to attack the city nearby, and Steve gets visions of Peggy and a lonely life after the war. Tony is the only other one not affected, so it’s his job to find Bruce and get him under control. This proves challenging, but he and Bruce prepared for this. Enter, the Hulkbuster. Is it awesome? Yes. Is it really awesome? Yes…taking down the Hulk takes a lot of time and probably a few casualties, but Tony finally succeeds.

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​Beaten, our Avengers are on the run now, since the Hulk really tore up that city, and Hill advises they not come to the tower. Clint takes them to the one safe house he knows of that isn’t on Ultron's radar…his house. Apparently, the archer has been busy…since he has two kids and a wife. Yeah, her name’s Laura and I’m really not sure how I felt about that information. It’s a pretty cool twist, really. Especially since Laura is a little pregnant. The kids know Aunt Nat and have only heard of the others. Not going to lie, I’m alright with this storyline. Recouping is one thing, but each Avenger has to deal with their own visions, thanks to Wanda. A surprise visit from Nick Fury gets Tony Stark to snap out of it, a bit. They have to beat Ultron, and Tony has to make things right. It’s off to South Korea, where they know Ultron is headed.

The A.I. in question is busy with some Vibranium, Loki’s scepter, and a machine of Dr. Cho’s. Earlier, she had a small machine that helped heal Hawkeye. The larger version of it is in Seoul, where Ultron is. He intends to have her use the machine and the Vibranium to make a body. It’s possible, and he wants his consciousness uploaded into it. It’s his vision that with that new body, he’ll be able to make the world into a peaceful place…and be the ultimate evolved form of mankind. The Avengers arrive in no time to help save Cho.  She’s been put under mind control with the scepter to help Ultron. With the body being made, and Ultron uploading as the Avengers attack, Wanda takes a look into the mind of the new body of Ultron. What she sees changes the course of her and Pietro’s actions. Wanda can’t have the destruction of the world, that wasn’t what either of them wanted. She sets Cho free and then they flee. Ultron won’t be deterred however, so he takes his new body and leaves. Hoping to upload into it at a later time. He wasn’t expecting the Avengers to take it and actually leave with it. Sadly, Natasha is physically lost in the battle, but she’ll be fine…

With the body Ultron created, Tony and Bruce set out to do something stupid, again. Why? Because Bruce is an enabler, and Tony is insane. Jarvis didn’t die…Tony was able to find him and piece him back together. And Loki’s scepter? It holds a powerful gem at its center, the Mind gem, one of the infamous Infinity Stones. They end up uploading Jarvis into the body, but not without some help. Steve and the twins show up to stop them, but it’s Thor who provides the electrical charge needed to complete the process. Vision is born, and he’s neither good nor bad, or is he? In a strange turn of events, he’s the only one able to lift Thor’s hammer. If that doesn’t speak to his character, then I don’t know what else does. One last battle ahead of them…and it all ends where it started. Natasha was found and captured by Ultron. She’s able to get a message out to Hawkeye via morse code. The church, the HYDRA base where the film began, is the place where Ultron is. He’s turned the entire city into a flying projectile, with the purpose of crashing it into the earth and creating an extinction level event…all so it can start again. The humans that survive will be evolved, better. Or, so, that’s the plan. He activates the city, sending it into the air. Our Avengers are left to fight off thousands of Ultron’s robot creations as well as save as many people as they can. It's almost futile, until Fury shows up with a Helicarrier….even then, it’s almost too much. Just when things seem to go right, they end badly…

For Pietro, his life ends when he saves Clint from an aerial assault by Ultron. The Archer left one of the air crafts to save a kid from the rubble. Wanda can’t handle the death of her brother. She leaves protecting the control panel of the flying city to kill Ultron, or the form he had taken. In that one moment, an Ultron bot activates the control panel, sending our city towards the ground once more. Tony has figured out a way to stop it, but it might not end so well for him. Thankfully, he figures it out and with Thor’s help, the City is blasted into a million pieces, breaking up before raining to the ground. With our Avengers safe, Vision meets with the last of Ultron….he started as one scraggly bot, and ends that way…what went wrong? Sadly, we’ll never know. In the end, Hulk leaves in a cloaked quinjet, Clint returns to his family, Natasha is left wondering why Bruce just left her, Tony leaves to figure things out, and Steve is…there. He and Natasha are tasked with training their new Avengers. War Machine, Falcon, and Scarlet Witch aren’t just sidekicks, they’re Avengers now. Either way, our team was left scattered and broken and we were left waiting once again to see what happens next to our beloved Avengers, and I might have something in my eye knowing where it goes from here. Whatever, feels are stupid, and I’m not crying over Civil War and Infinity War, you are.

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