2012 · action · superhero · adventure
The Avengers (2012)
Directed by Joss Whedon2h 23m2012
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
Our read: The Avengers (2012) (2012) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · superhero · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / superhero, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- epic-stakes
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