Disappointment over Ironman 1

Rating: 2/10 (20 October 2017)

Unlike some blockbuster directors, Favreau is most comfortable with the actors, making the scenes play. He's less adept at the hydraulics. The whiz-bang stuff here -- while never less than slick -- doesn't produce anything we haven't seen before.
The movie's biggest problem is that the fight scenes aren't all that, maybe because the outcome is never in question.
If that's the pay-off for what remains a sharper, snappier comic book movie, then so be it, but here's hoping the next one doesn't completely lose its edge.