It was what i expected.

Rating: 6/10 (10 May 2010)

While watching the first Iron Man, I was a little disappointed. The movie was entertaining to watch, but it did not have enough action, or Iron Man in it. It seemed like a ton of story telling, and not enough of what the genre it is under: action. So, with this in mind, it took my friends a lot of persuading to get me to go see the next Iron Man in theaters, but they did so, and boy do I regret it.
First off, don't get me wrong, I thought the movie was OK and watchable, but I was not happy spending so much money on it when I could've just borrowed it from my brother when he bought it on DVD. Usually when I go to the movie theater, I want to watch a movie that would keep me entertained throughout the entire movie, and making me want to see it again. Iron Man had neither of these.
When the theater employee up front was done talking about how people should turn their cell phones off and all that good stuff, people started cheering for the movie to start. I just sat there and waited patiently. As i was watching the movie, I was waiting for some sort of action to occur. When I finally got it, it was at a slower pace than I would've hoped, and it ended very quickly. I started realizing that this was happening the entire movie. It takes a long time for action to occur, and when it does, its length is low.
Now, the movie has a lot of story telling as i was saying before. Importantly, there were way too many scenes and characters in the movie that you would not understand if you know nothing of Iron Man outside the movies. In other words, if you haven't read the comics, you would not know the names of some of the characters, or even how they were introduced. Thats right, they don't introduce some characters. For example Samuel L. Jackson's character. It just seemed he came into the film randomly.
There is still some great parts to this movie. The dialog at times could be funny and entertaining, and just the overall special effects that Tony Stark has in his work area is a treat to the eye. The last action scene had a lot more length than the others, and definitely a nice little relief from the entire movie.
Overall, this movie is a nice little film to watch if you don't care about the action scenes. If you're a big Iron Man fan, and read all the comics and such, then you would love this movie. If you are like me, the casual movie goer who is looking for a film that will be action packed and full of explosive fun, spend your money elsewhere.