What's the matter with all those good reviews?! >read this<

Rating: 4/10 (28 May 2008)

Really, I don't understand how EVERYONE gave a good note and excellent reviews of this film. It is REALLY FAR from being a good movie, and even more from being in the top 250 of the all-time best movies. This is my first comment on this site, and it is also the first time that IMDb deceived me on a movie... I was sure that it would be awesome but it was just stupid and pointless. Maybe it is because I am not a fan of the Iron Man comics but I couldn't get in it, from the beginning to the absurd end. I loved the other superhero's movies but the context of this one was just too ridiculous that it was not interesting at all... I almost fell asleep in some parts.
It is also extremely unrealistic when you consider the actual state of things in the world: Japan is way in advance on us on things like robotics and technology... just to give an example, in Japan they can create gas and electricity with their garbage... and we are far away from that. So how on earth can a little dude from the middle of the states come out from nowhere and can create those super weapons and that robot... something is not right.
The music of this movie is also the worst I heard in years. It is dumb and it's really not helping the empty context of the story. Maybe if the music would have been better, I would have appreciated it a little bit more. I had shivers in Spiderman with the awesome music and the beautiful scenes of ''flying'' in the city. Not even one song was well-placed or enjoyable in Iron Man. Only heavy-metal style shouting music, not really heroic music in my opinion...
Finally, the 4/10 note is well-deserved considering the fact that the music was horrible, the story was stupid, boring and too much cliché, but also because the only two good points of the movie were that the special effects were extremely good and the acting decent (Robert Downey Jr. is a revelation), unless it would have been a 2 or a 1. I strongly disagree with the 8.2 of IMDb and as I said, it's really the first time in the hundreds reviews of movies I watched here. I didn't enjoyed Iron Man at all, and a good advice to anyone would be to keep those 10 bucks to buy something useful or to go see something better.
Thank you,
Jeff