THE AVENGERS FILM REVIEW

S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) arrives at a remote S.H.I.E.L.D. facility during an evacuation. The Tesseract, an energy source of unknown potential, is activating itself, and it opens a portal through space, delivering the exiled Norse god Loki (Tom Hiddleston) to Earth. Loki takes the Tesseract, and uses his abilities to take control of the minds of S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, including Dr. Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) and Agent Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), to aid him.
In response to the attack, Fury re-activates the Avengers Initiative. Agent Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johannson) is sent to India to find and recruit Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), while Agent Philip Coulson (Clark Gregg), approaches Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and requests that he review Dr. Selvig’s research. Fury himself approaches Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) with an assignment to get the Tesseract back from Loki. During his exile, Loki met the Chitauri, an alien race seeking to conquer the galaxy. In exchange for the Tesseract, the Chitauri agree to help Loki subjugate earth.
Rogers and Stark locate Loki in Germany, where he recovers iridium needed to stabilise the Tesseract’s power and demands that the people of the city kneel before him. Loki quickly surrenders and is escorted back to a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier before they intercepted by Thor. Thor attempts to force his brother into giving up the location of the Tesseract, but he, Stark and Rogers fight over how to proceed. Loki is taken to the helicarrier and placed in a cell designed to hold the Hulk.
The Avengers are divided, both over how to approach Loki and by the revelation that S.H.I.E.L.D. intends to harness the Tesseract’s power to develop weapons. Fury admits that the events of Thor made S.H.I.E.L.D. aware of other races on other worlds, some of which may see earth as an easy target. The decision was made to produce weapons with the Tesseract as a means of deterrence. As the team argue, Barton and Loki’s possessed agents attack the helicarrier, disabling its engines in flight. As Stark and Rogers attempt to restart the damaged engines, Thor tries to prevent Banner from being overpowered by the Hulk and destroying the ship from inside. While fighting Barton, Romanoff discovers that a blow to the head — powerful enough to knock him unconscious — is enough to break Loki’s control over Barton’s mind. By the end of the battle, Loki escapes, both Thor and Banner have been ejected from the ship and agent Phil Coulson is killed.
Fury uses Coulson’s death to motivate the Avengers into working as a team. Stark and Rogers realise that simply defeating them will not be enough for Loki; he needs to overpower them in a very public way so as to validate himself as ruler of earth. Using a device built by Selvig, he opens a portal to the Chitauri home world over Manhattan, summoning a Chitauri invasion.
The Avengers rally together in defence of New York, but quickly come to the conclusion that they will be overwhelmed as wave after wave of Chitauri descend upon earth. With help from the reformed Barton, Rodgers and Thor evacuate civilians while Banner lets the Hulk take over his mind and goes after Loki, beating him into submission. Romanoff makes her way to the portal. She hits Selvig over the head, freeing him of Loki’s control, and Selvig admits that Loki’s staff can be used to shut down the portal.
Meanwhile, Nick Fury is relieved of his command by his superiors, who fire a nuclear missile at Manhattan to end the invasion once and for all. Tony Stark intercepts the missile and directs it at the portal and the Chitauri home world before running out of oxygen and plummeting back to earth where he is caught by the Hulk. Thor escorts Loki and the Tesseract back to Asgard, while Fury notes that the Avengers will go their separate ways until such time as a new threat as dire as that posed by Loki emerges.
In a post-credits scene, the Chitauri leader gives his opinion of the futility of attacking Earth to his master, Thanos.


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