THE AVENGERS (2012)
Anyone who knows anything about Marvel's Comics' superheros will know who the Avengers are. But for the benefit of the uninformed, they are some of the most well known of these superheros who are called upon as a group to defend earth against any alien-type attack. And under the command of the director of S.H.I.E.L.D, Nick Fury (portrayed by Samuel L Jackson) the team consists of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). S.H.I.E.L.D is a secret government agency and the acronym stands for "Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division".
In this the first episode, Thor's mischievous brother, Loki (played by Tom Huddleston) gets hold of a mysterious power source called the Tesseract. With it he then teams up with an alien army in order to take over the universe. That is when the Avengers are assembled to thwart him in his efforts.
Typical of all comic based movies, the action is fast paced and spectacular and this is no exception. There are enough thrills and spills to keep any action junkie glued to his or her seat right through to the end. I give it 3 out of 5 stars.
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The gang...
THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015)
In the second chapter, the gang is back but this time they have to do battle against themselves.
Tony Stark or Iron Man (still played by Robert Downey Jr) inadvertently creates Ultron (James Spader), an android with artificial intelligence. The idea behind inventing this robot is to somehow achieve world peace. But due to a mishap, the machine wakes up before it could be properly programmed according to Tony's design. So, with its own idea of how to achieve his intended goal, Ultron goes on the rampage with mass human extinction in mind. It is thus up to the Avengers to stop him. However, their old arch enemy and nemesis, Baron Strucker, throws a spanner in the works in the form of the supernatural Maximoff twins who themselves have a bone to pick with Tony Stark. They manage to mess with the minds of the Avengers to such an extent that they start fighting each other.
Although much the same recipe is followed as before, there are a few interesting twist and turns in the plot. The only thing that bothered me a bit in this one was the speed of the action sequences. Apparently director Joss Whedon never heard of a thing called slow motion. Or maybe it is just me showing my age... Nevertheless, I still give it 3 out of 5 stars also.
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Ultron in action...
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