Jeremy Renner had just cause to complain when his character Hawkeye was given short shrift in 2012s The Avengers, even going on record to voice his disappointment that 90% of the movie, Im not the character I signed on to play. In Age Of Ultron, Joss Whedon makes amends and then some, giving Barton a crucial role in recruiting the Maximoff twins, a ready-made family and some of the movies best one-liners to boot. His relationship with Quicksilver is, by turns, terse, funny and tragic; but its his exchange with Scarlet Witch as Ultrons masterplan is unveiled that brings about one of the funniest moments in this or any other Marvel film. As the city of Sokovia is made airborne and chaos reigns, Wanda Maximoff despairs at her part in the events unfolding around them, forcing Barton to deliver an inspired, impromptu pep talk. In so doing, he becomes Whedons mouthpiece for a moment as the writer/director brazenly breaks the fourth wall:
The city is flying, were fighting an army of robots and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense.
I watch movies and I watch sport. I also watch movies about sport, and if there were a sport about movies I'd watch that too. The internet was the closest thing I could find.
