Okay, so I have another Marvel movie to review, and this time, I’m not going to give this one a negative review. It isn’t as bad as The Amazing Spider-man 2, but not as good as Guardians of the Galaxy.

The problem with these Marvel movies is there is a lot at stake. Now that they are in the Cinematic Universe, almost every character in the Avengers has a movie of their own, and each one is based in Source material that is decades-old. Director Joss Whedon, who did a terrific job on the first Avengers movie as well as almost everything else that he touches, really had a tough job making a sequel.

I’m going to start out by explaining the film’s flaws, which means that I have to bring up elements of the plot and a few spoilers. The film begins with an action-packed scene that Whedon wanted to be reminiscent of a James Bond movie. You know, with an action scene that barely ties in with the plot? In this case, it does propel the plot, which is my biggest complaint.

You see, the Avengers are invading the castle of Baron Strucker, a big man at HYDRA (a big enemy group established in the Captain America films). The whole reason why they are there is to get the staff of Loki, and I have no idea how that prop from the first film ended up there. While Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, is attempting to retrieve the staff, but has a hex put on him by the Scarlet Witch. I’ll explain more about this character later, but needless to say, Tony suddenly has a huge fear of an alien invasion even greater than the first movie.

When the Avengers get back to their headquarters, which looks very impressive, Tony is suddenly obsessed with creating Artificial Intelligence greater than that of his own AI program Jarvis. This results in Ultron, who I will have to say is created far too quickly in this film. This is my biggest complaint of this film, was that Ultron was created too easily. I’m not certain how you could have done this if you wanted Ultron early in the film, but maybe they could have developed it throughout some of the other Marvel movies like second Captain America and Thor movies. Heck, the seeds of this could easily been planned in the third and awful Iron Man movie.

Personally, this quick development was the film’s major flaw, but I have heard that the original version of this film was much longer and drew out this storyline to its proper length. I would have to say that another major flaw was the film is actually too awesome. Avengers: Age of Ultron is what audiences want, which is a huge film that has riveting action, and it delivers. In fact, it does its job so well, that I kind of had a headache after it was over. I did watch it in 3-D, so I think this was just a sensory overload. Perhaps we are living in an age where you have to pack so much awesomeness in your film just to bring in audiences.

However, Whedon did a terrific job mixing story with action. There is a plot establishing an odd relationship with the Black Widow and the Hulk. It works. Hawkeye is more flushed out in this film, and it is revealed that he has a family. That works. Ultron is a villain that works. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are villains at the beginning and then betray Ultron for reasons that work. Vision is introduced, and he works, so well.

The film has a lot of interesting “holes” in it. Thor leaves in this film to do I’m not certain, and I think it has something to do with the third Thor movie and the Avengers sequels. I believe that the fates of Captain America and Iron Man will show up in the third Captain America movie.

Clearly, Age of Ultron is the future of films with more big-budget awesomeness and attachment to a cinematic universe franchise. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future these will be the only films that we show in the theaters, with everything else coming straight to Netflix and other digital formats.