'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Review: Awesome Film with Action and Visual Effects Overload

"Avengers: Age of Ultron," the sequel to the box-office smash movie "Avengers," does not disappoint in the non-stop action and spectacular visual effects departments.

We have an all-star team of superheroes, plus two new recruits and another superhero with unique powers. We have visually stunning action sequences. We have a new super robot villain voiced by James Spader. And we have destruction aplenty—flying wreckage, collapsing buildings, runaway trains, exploding vehicles, disintegrating landmasses.

To a certain extent, it's just an overload of too much action, without much substance. But then again, the Avengers franchise is known for the action, so fans will enjoy this movie if they don't try to search for more essence.

The movie has definite star power, with Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow/Natasha, Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk/Bruce Banner, Chris Evans as Captain America/Steve Rogers, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye/Clint Barton and of course, Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man/Tony Stark.

The three new additions include the twins Pietro and Wanda Maximoff played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who becomes the lightning-fast Quicksilver and Elizabeth Olsen, who plays the energy and mind-manipulating Scarlet Witch.

Then there is The Vision, played by Paul Bettany, the mysterious character who has the ability of flight and super strength (except for Thor, he's the only one who can lift Thor's hammer, the Mjölnir) and the ability to change his density. Scarlet Witch and The Vision are expected to be back in action in "Captain America: Civil War" on May 6, 2016.

The arch-villain is the destructive robot Ultron, voiced by Spader, who is the result of Tony Stark's artificial intelligence experiment gone wrong. Ultron believes that the only hope for world peace lies in the eradication of the human race.

It is an all-out war, with the battle spanning from Seoul's Gangnam district to a made-up East European country called Sokovia. The movie is expertly produced, spiced with a dash of humor, with never-ending action sequences that would provide adrenaline junkies their needed fix.

There are other tracks that were followed, like Natasha's romantic life and Hawkeye's family life, but it is the action that lords it over this entire movie.

"Avengers: Age of Ultron" is directed by Joss Whedon, who also directed the successful predecessor "Avengers." It is a Walt Disney release, rated PG-13 for "intense sequences of sci-fi action, violence and destruction."

Watch it to be amazed and awed by the visual spectacle. Don't expect to be moved in any other respect as this is a movie that subscribes to the tenet of form over substance.