An overrated movie that is somewhat of a mess, and fails to entertain.

Rating: 6/10 (11 May 2008)

Iron Man is a movie that had some good ideas, but failed to realize them. Here's the bad: The pacing of the movie was rather poor. Rather than presenting its events in a fashion in which they build upon each other, therefore building the movie up like a great structure, it rather mixes things around, spending more time on small things than on the big things, making it seem kind of uneven, sort of misformed. Too much time is spent on building the suit. The CGI, for some reason, seeing as how this has the potential to make so much money, is mediocre at the very best. It is really obvious that what your seeing has been made by a computer. The movie is only 126 minutes long, but feels much longer. There isn't enough action. There's three scenes of action, his battle against the terrorists, the skirmish with the jets, and the battle against the Iron Monger at the end. These scenes feel much too short when compared to the non-action scenes, and i know, you have to spend time on the characters, but this movie spends way too much time on its characters, and that time isn't well spent. The action isn't well crafted, isn't designed well to be that thrilling, and there-for isn't. There is also a very clear potential for greatness with Tony Stark and a character named Yessin in the beginning, a very clear potential for some entertaining and well done character development, but what could have been great was muddled by some less than great writing and pacing. The acting was good, but did suffer in some parts, and wasn't some landmark as people have claimed. Bottom line, Iron Man, i don't think, is very good, because it doesn't have any parts that would make me want to watch again. Cloverfield has the same Re-watch inefficieny, but it was actually well done, and much more memorable. I gave Iron Man a 6 because it isn't terrible, but very, very mediocre. I don't understand, at all, all of the praise going towards it,especially all the critical praise. I wouldn't see it again, simply because the entertainment wouldn't be there. You can see it if you want, but you might not have nearly as much fun as you would like.