Had all the right ingredients, just a little under cooked.

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2018)

This is my first ever movie review which in my mind justifies my rating! I will start off with all the things I liked about the movie and then explain why I feel like I am overrating it.
Hands down my favorite ingredient is the sci-fi. I loved how the rare earth metal was weaved into the story and allowed amazing technological innovations.
The costumes are excellent!
The dialogue is excellent, contemporary, serious, witty, and funny.
The cause of the superhero's action and emergence is compelling, believable, and easily relatable.
Now the negative. I could easily have given this a 4-5 rating. I literally dozed off several times at some of the more redundant parts of the movie. It was so predictable where this was going and it just dragged on and on and on. Even tho I liked the dialogue a lot, I want there to be a point to it. The story telling left no drama or suspense for what I should expect.
The theme of a hidden technological city was tragically ignored after the opening few scenes. It felt like the movie abandoned the concept of any sort of interaction between this city and the outside world. I get that that was kind of the moral point of the movie, but the point was almost completely missed by me until the after credit scene.
The beginning and endings were memorable to me, but the entire struggle between the villain and hero left so much to be desired. I was just extremely bored with the plot. I felt like I was sitting around for the entire movie waiting for a spark to ignite my imagination.
I give it 5 based on the pure review and a couple of extra stars for the sci-fi potential and the coolness factor.
This movie definitely deserves a sequel and it might be one of the rare instances where the sequel is better than the original, that is if the next one can have the same dialogue concepts, the same sci-fi potential, and the same cool looking costumes!
Conclusion, its worth watching because it has so much potential to be an epic tale. It might seem boring because too much time was spent on empty plot details and not enough time on building out relationships between characters.