Divided response

Rating: 5/10 (2 May 2013)

I can't work out whether I like this film and for some reason every newspaper review I've read can't seem to give it enough praise, which personally I found very confusing. So I'm glad to see from these other reviews that people are pointing out similar issues with the film that ruined the experience for me. The main thing that stands out is that this doesn't feel like an Iron Man movie at all. If I were to review it as a film isolated from the Marvel franchise, I would probably say it was fun, witty and had a good amount of action. However it is an Iron man movie and this is where my problem lies.
One of my greatest pleasures about watching these films is seeing Tony create and step into the Iron Man suit. More than anything Iron Man is cool and the previous films really capture this. This film just doesn't do the Iron man suit justice. I didn't like the new design of the suit. The suit seemed incredibly vulnerable in comparison to past movies and contradicts the powers of the suit. But my main problem was that there wasn't much Iron Man. Every Iron Man film should always fulfill one thing, and that's Tony Stark being Iron Man and there just wasn't enough of this, even the longest sequence Iron Man sequence (plane scene) you find out Tony is remotely controlling it, so he isn't even in it.
Don't get me wrong, I love Robert Downey Junior as Tony Stark and he gave a good performance in this film. But I'm paying to see what Tony Stark can do as Ironman, not what Tony Stark can do without Ironman and ultimately this left me leaving the cinema feeling unsatisfied.
If your not particularly a big fan of the Iron man franchise you'll probably enjoy this film. But if like me you're an Iron man fan and you still haven't seen the film, don't hold your expectations too high, as there will be various things that will annoy you that I haven't touched upon.