More or less, Bland

Rating: 5/10 (25 December 2008)

It's not to often that I give a movie 5 out of 10 stars but this movie is unique in its own un-unique way. Yeah, I just said that. The reason why I say that this movie is bland but unique is because its good and bad add up to take it right to the level of mediocrity.
When I saw the movie, "Iron Man", I was amazed by how it truly was a unique and un-average superhero pop corn flick, and seeing how the back of its DVD Box spoke of how it was as exhilarating as Iron Man I decided to give it a try.
The Film opens up in Rocinha while Edward Norton is searching for a cure for his strange (green) trouble. By this point in the film it does seem to have some promise, yet by The Battle at The Culver University Campus that hope of uniqueness begins to fade away.
Also, I'd like to take a section of this review to a bothering problem of the film and that is Mr. Blue, aka The Professor. This character is acting as a jumpy old professor but is dressed in a T-Shirt and Jeans, and played by a man in his late Twenties or early Thirties. Therefore, this character is torn apart between to characteristics.
(Spoilers included in Next Paragraph)
Now this movie would have been possibly, and slightly above mediocrity if it wasn't for a disgraceful ending. Now, this ending consists of Robert Downey Jr. as his character in Iron Man speaking of a "Team". This ending feels like by the current point of disappointment, they plainly gave up on the fact that the movie as an original might stand up as an original and instead changed the movie to just an unreasonably long trailer for Marvels, "Avengers".
This movie does not stand up on its own as an original and will surely not be remembered but instead be replaced by yet another, hopefully more memorable Hulk popcorn flick.