Iron Man

So I saw the movie Iron Man maybe a week ago, and it was good, but it's been bugging me for a while because I didn't like it nearly as much as I thought I would. I think I'm the only person I've heard of that didn't think it was amazing. It was impressive in the way it showed Tony Stark becoming Iron Man, but that's it. The fight scenes weren't all that thrilling; I've forgotten most of the details already. The graphics were excellent, but isn't that more or less expected from a movie now? The plot was decent, but had no surprises. It was clean, well organized, and fit together fairly well, but it was too easy to guess what was going to happen from the first 10 minutes. I remember seeing the bad guy for the first time in the movie and thinking "wow, he looks like a bad guy. There's no way he's going to be good through this whole series." And I was right.

But there was a bigger problem with the bad guy. He was a villian, yes, and he was evil as a matter of necessity. But he wasn't a super villian. Iron Man is a super hero with his intelligence, cleverness, resourcefulness, and priorities, to say nothing of his very cool suit. He also was dynamic, changing and realizing things throughout the movie, and it was very interesting to watch his character. The bad guy, however, was boring. There was nothing "super" about him except for

*SPOILERS* that he stole the technology to make his own suit. But regardless, he was a petty crook that only worked for money, unlike Magneto who had different ways of doing things from his nemesis, Prof. X, but had the same objective, causing a conflict of principles and less oof blatant good/bad, or Dr. Octopus who had good objectives on the whole, but was overpowered by his invention into forcing something he should have forsaken at least until doing more research. But the bad guy in Iron Man (I can't even remember his name) was little more than an average double dealing business man looking only to further his profits. *END SPOILERS*

Don't get me wrong; I enjoyed Iron Man. Just not as much as I would have liked.

Review: Not bad. Entertaining. Expected more. Definately see the sequel.