

In an unsupervised moment, something clicks in the program and Ultron emerges out of the absolute worst interpretation of Tony’s desire to protect the world. Underneath the requisite tecnobabble, the scientists’ goal is to transfer the scepter’s mysterious intelligence to Tony’s robotic weapons and form a dispensable army of Ultrons, robots with a moral code to achieve “peace in our time.”


The team runs into some unexpected trouble in the form of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson), twins who developed superpowers during HYDRA’s experiments with the scepter.Īfter the successful mission, Tony and Bruce run experiments on the scepter that could help with their latest global security project, a program called Ultron (James Spader). 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.
