Ironman mini-review

SPOILER ALERT

I didn’t know anything about the Ironman comics/universe before I saw it.

I saw the movie yesterday and wasn’t that impressed. It was alright I suppose. I kept feeling like it wasn’t as good as previous comic-to-movie adaptations. The characters didn’t ring any chords with me; the arrogance of Stark was mildly amusing. His capture and realisation that he was doing evil wasn’t very convincing. I mean, mostly because before he was captured, they made him out to be this super-intelligent guy. Intelligent, arrogant people don’t get my sympathy. Plus, they were never going to kill him. They wanted their missile.

The bearded guy’s surprise betrayal was good, but it didn’t eventuate into anything. The fight didn’t have enough oomph. I thought it was lame that it ended up the way it did, and he was defeated the way he was. Partly because I couldn’t identify with Stark — as before mentioned, I have no sympathy for ingelligent, arrogant people. Secondly because there weren’t enough cool effects and shit being smashed up. Thirdly, it was all too predictable: disabled protagonist outwits dumber, stronger, slower opponent, opponent is killed by the very technology he seeks to make use of to destroy others, yadda yadda. Way too self-righteous for such an arrogant bastard like Stark.

The love interest with Pepper was screaming obviousness from the very first moment you see her on screen, with her ‘throwing out the trash’ quip.

I’m hoping the second one will be better. It needs something truly bad to happen to Stark, and it needs more action.

I give it 5/10.