Nothing special

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2008)

I must admit, when I first saw the previews for this movie I thought that it wouldn't be anything special, but would probably be a fun movie to watch. After reading reviews however I thought that maybe we would get something more, but unfortunately I cannot see what everyone is raving about. What you get is exactly what I expected an entertaining popcorn flick with a lot of special affects that is nothing special.
Robert Downey Jr. does a good job in his role and provides some very humorous moments, but this doesn't make for a great movie. The movie starts as if it is going to add some sort of realism, but then immediately decides to go the other direction. Now I don't have a problem with a good old fashion hero flick with lots of fun and a couple of laughs along the way. It may be a bit harsh of me to say that I was disappointed by the movie, in reality it was exactly what I expected, but the build up that I heard made me think that maybe it could be a lot more.
So much of the movie just makes no sense what so ever. To start, OK I will accept that this one man makes the greatest weapon that the world has ever seen in a cave in a month or couple of months or how ever long he was in there, fine I'll take that. He then goes on to perfect his creation which takes at least a couple weeks, I remember him saying day 11 at one point but can't really remember anything else about how long he was doing this for. But what I don't understand or accept is how Obadiah goes on to make a better suit in what seems to be a couple of days with scientists that could not even make the basic part to the suit in the first place (the part that Tony made very quickly and with relative ease it seems). How am I supposed to believe that these very same scientists go on to build a much better and more complicated suit in a shorter time frame.
Another part in the movie which didn't really make much sense to me was when Pepper goes to Tony's office to get the info and for some reason Obadiah lets her go with no fuss at all after walking in and immediately saying "I know what your doing Pepper" or something like that? How does that make any sense? Then two scenes later he suddenly decides that she needs to die? This whole sequence was pretty stupid to me. Continuing with this whole sequence, Oba goes to talk to his scientists and then manages to beat Pepper back to Tony's house? Why on Earth does Pepper not immediately go with the agents to get Tony to make sure that he is OK? This is just plain stupid to me. Now I can live with characters in movies not being very smart, but this whole sequence of events just makes no sense what so ever to me.
In the end Iron Man is alright, it doesn't provide anything new really and to me there are some holes in the plot. It is an alright movie that is pretty fun, but is definitely not worthy of all of this hype that it is getting.