Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Film Review - The Avengers (2012)


The Avengers is the long awaited film from Marvel Studios and have built to this since the first Iron Man film in 2008, in this story an alien race from the nine realms threatens the Earth with conquest and oppression, the Government organisation SHIELD headed up by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) decides to bring together some of the Earth’s greatest heroes to stop them.

I went into the Avengers with moderate expectations, not really sure what to expect but at the same time seeing the previews for the film made me excited for it as it looked great, with that was the film worth the wait?

For sure, to be precise it was surely worth the wait, writer/director Joss Whedon achieves a nice balance between the moments of comedy, character and action, all of the chief actors deliver the goods and almost all of them have a real moment of their own in which to shine, something that will make movie lovers smile for sure, the film is also very funny and those moments come off nicely.

But its the action that will make people smile and Whedon more than delivers the goods on this regard, not relying on the team of monkeys that edit most action films nowadays, Whedon hires people who actually know what they’re doing and its sensational to watch as each hero gets to actually show off his power in a big way, something that very rarely happens in a superhero film.

So in closing, go see this movie, its really good and really entertaining, 4 out of 5.

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