Borderline psychotic cast in movie jumping from one CGI set to another CGI set

Rating: 5/10 (1 May 2010)

I found the cast of characters almost all borderline psychotics. All metal and no brains was the order of the day for almost every single character.
My time in the movie was spent wondering whether crazy = funny; or whether the director intended to show the characters on the crazy side (particularly the villains whose main aim was mad revenge).
The movie jumped from scene to scene as if the story line ran out of puff and required new energy by a change of set when the writer or director got bored. Given the crazy episodic nature of film's revelations, it almost seemed like a series of black comedy skits especially when you throw in Gary Shandling as a "senator". Unfortunately, the scene changes were not seamless.
The only straight man for the comedic capers of the cast was Don Cheadle who after 20 minutes suddenly does a turn coat act before returning to the side of good.
An the biggest laugh would have to come from Mickey Rourke who's fingers would almost destroy a computer key board does his tap, tap, tap and instantly breaks a complex encryption code and passes through the Fire Wall of a military computer. I seriously doubt whether Mickey Rourke's character displayed the brains to even turn on a computer!!!
The racing car smash up in Monaco (20 minutes into the movie) was spectacular but it was then a long boring wait until the next action scene.
Samuel L Jackson's character was tossed into the movie as a tie-in with the next movie or another Marvel comic movie production. The scene was like the diner scene in Pulp Fiction without any shootout.
I had high expectations and was accordingly disappointed. The movie was more for laughs and spectacle rather than any serious story or character development.
And why would people pay for attendance at a Tony Stark dinner when the entertainment provided required the audience to be on drugs to find amusement at the crazy antics?