‘Age of Ultron’ an exciting explosion of chaos, drama

“Peace in our time.” This simple phrase, nearly 140 years old by this point, acts as the catalyst for the most of the danger and drama that permeates “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the second addition in the “Avengers” line and the umpteenth in the overall cinematic Marvel universe. (The last trailer to play before the movie? “Ant-Man.”)

The goal that begins the whole mess is simple: to protect humanity and Earth from forces far more powerful than ourselves. Remember what happened to New York in the first “Avengers”? So does everyone else, and no one wants that to happen again. Hence, the Ultron initiative, a peacekeeping program meant to bring “peace in our time.”

The irony is not lost on me.

Nor on most of the cast of this superhero drama, which is reminded time and again how humanity tends to be its own worst enemy, whether it’s peaceful men creating machines of war or despots creating the very avengers who eventually remove them from power. It’s a doomed cycle, to say the least, but it’s predictable. But when we throw in a super-powerful artificial intelligence program into the mix, created by the same team that’s tasked with protecting the world, all that predictability goes right out the window. Along with quite a few number of bodies.

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Four self-destructing stars out of five.

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Chris Evans, left, as Captain America/Steve Rogers, and Chris Hemsworth as Thor, star in “Avengers: Age Of Ultron.” (Photo credit: Jay Maidment/Disney/Marvel via AP)