It's a good regular movie, it's a bad Iron Man movie

Rating: 6/10 (8 September 2013)

If this was any other movie but Iron Man themed, it would definitely have a very high rank in my books as well as the books of most viewers. It has everything: drama, action, comedy, good plot, good effects and so on. It would probably be a solid 8 out of 10. The thing is, this is an Iron Man movie and somehow it looks like Shane Black forgot that.
While one must respect Black's job, he missed his mark on this one and he did by a long shot. He wasn't even close and that's reason enough to make fans mad. The first problem with this film is: too much Martin Riggs Stark and not enough Iron Man. I mean, why is Tony running around outsmarting bad guys and doing fist fights, as if this was an 80s flick ala Lethal Weapon, Hard to kill or Die Hard?
Then you have Ben Kingsley. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with Aldrich Killian; in fact Guy Pearce absolutely nailed the part and he's brilliant as always. However, how can you waste Ben Kingsley on this? I have no idea. What is the problem with handling two bad guys? Christopher Nolan did a good job in Batman Begins. Tim Burton also did a good job in Batman Returns (in fact there were three villains on that one). So why couldn't Shane Black manage two bad guys? Beats me. Instead, turns out Miguel Ferrer is the other villain, for what like two minutes?
Then the small little details: like the ACDC or Black Sabbath music. Where did it go? It never runs old on an Iron Man film, but now we have rap and trance instead? No, no, no. A superhero movie balances the time of the character and the alter ego. This film lost that balance.
Still I can't rate this under a 5, because like I said before, if this was a non-Iron Man movie, it's a great effort. It had all the potential to be the best Iron Man movie.