Don't believe the hype

Rating: 7/10 (15 May 2012)

This film is entertaining. It is fun and has some amusing lines but at the end of the day is nothing more than the culmination of a marketing scheme started in 2008 with the Iron Man film. I didn't like that film then, felt like Spiderman with a different coat of paint and this one feels like X-men. Yes there's stunts and action but lets be honest Scarlett Johansen looks like she's working out what to buy with her fee throughout the entire thing, the 3-D effects were awful bar the flying arrow at the end and Samuel L Jackson is there to merely spout expositionary dialogue more at home in a Saturday morning kids cartoon. There will be more, it will make a fortune in a world where whole first world countries are going bankrupt and it will be forgotten in about one years time.