Big budgets don't make big movies.

Rating: 4/10 (15 September 2008)

Well, I am surprised that so many people liked this movie. The movie is not special, the effects are, but to me special effects don't make a movie. I just could not stop thinking about the Imagination Land episode of South Park where they are trying to explain the difference between a story with a plot and a movie with just special effects. The storyline in Iron Man was ridiculous; the main character is very annoying with his tsunami of flat one-liners, he almost looked like a caricature. There was no character development, the moral was cheap (proof that Tony Stark has a heart, come on), the storyline very predictable, Terrence Howard complete unbelievable as a war general and Jeff Bridges as an evil guy who suddenly decides to drive to some terrorist camp in the heart of Afghanistan (that's just a twist, not a plot). Iron Man is a typical movie that was shot with a big budget but suffers from an uncreative director with no sense of humor. The special effects look awesome but the story is sooooooo thin that it ruined the film.