Extremely Overrated, just your average action movie.

Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2012)

Went to see this with low expectations and it was just as bad as I thought it would be, very overrated.
All the lead up films are average, Incredible Hulk was OK and Captain America and Thor are poor films but the two Iron Man films are pretty good but not brilliant.
There's so many story lines they could have done to make this film brilliant but the storyline reminds me a lot of Transformers 3 except this has a bunch of superheroes instead of robots, the same old storyline of the bad guys want to take over planet earth and the big problem with this film is we never really care about any of the characters, there's no emotion in this film whatsoever. This is a major spoiler don't read this part if you don't want to; Agent Coulson who is in the lead up films, dies and they try to make it emotional but none of the superheroes really care except maybe Iron Man but he's not that upset about it.
As for the acting performances they're all poor, the only actor who can come out of this film with any credit is Robert Downey Jnr who is the reason I'm giving it a three out of ten, he is the stand out performance in this star studded cast, he is very good as Tony Stark/Iron Man and is the only good thing about the film. As for the rest of the cast they are all poor performances which is surprising because it such a good cast; Scarlett Johannson is bad as Black Widow and as for Jeremy Renner, he doesn't get much screen time as Hawkeye, there's a little bit of a story between these two characters but they never expand on it. Chris Evans gives a wooden performance as Captain America, for me doesn't make a good Captain America. And Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Incredible Hulk is a slight improvement on Edward Norton but not brilliant.
Then there's the villain Loki played by Tom Hiddleston who is so cheesy and predictable it is unreal and there's nothing threatening about him at all and with some saying the best villain ever, must be joking, he's a joke.
So to conclude, I don't know how this has got a 8.6 rating so don't believe how all the hype and fan boys, it is on a par with Transformers 3 which is not a good thing, just non-stop action for no particular reason, to sum up a very poor 3/10 when they could have done it so much better.