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Just got back from IMAXing it up, as we lucky blighters get it before you! Anyway, will keep this brief as find it hard to say much on the film. It was a bit disappointing, there were only couple action scenes and not much drive to the film. Tony's suit is slowly killing him and there's no cure, until they drop in the deus ex machina which takes up far too much of plot. Most of the central act is just swings and roundabouts, dropping nods here and there with SHIELD and giving bit screen time to underdeveloped baddies. I LOVE Sam Rockwell, fantastically charismatic actor, sadly the writing seemed to restrict much of his flair till towards the end. Mickey Rourke is pretty cool but except for his motivation don't really get too into the character. I don't want to say they were wasted, but more perfunctory. Tony's crisis through the film has some nice scenes, the party particularly but his friendship with Rhodes wasn't really shown much strength but Downey nails the character again. Cheadle does decent job replacing Howard but the role isn't beefy enough for much difference to be noticed. Scarlett Johansen was a pleasant surprise but her character seemed pretty pointless and her gracing action scene was too reminiscent of Nightwalker in X2. As was the final battle to the original Iron Man, robots fighting but this one was over far too quick.
The film was handled by Favreau well enough, despite the fact he has far too much time on screen. The focus on the film was Tony's crisis but has an underwhelming resolution which leaves a lot of plodding middle redundant. I think a bit too much time was given in leading to The Avengers and, not that i know much of the comics but a more satisfying arc would be the 'demon in the bottle' alcoholism narrative. The climatic battle was ended with another deus ex moment and the confrontation with Rourke was far too short.
Just got back from IMAXing it up, as we lucky blighters get it before you! Anyway, will keep this brief as find it hard to say much on the film. It was a bit disappointing, there were only couple action scenes and not much drive to the film. Tony's suit is slowly killing him and there's no cure, until they drop in the deus ex machina which takes up far too much of plot. Most of the central act is just swings and roundabouts, dropping nods here and there with SHIELD and giving bit screen time to underdeveloped baddies. I LOVE Sam Rockwell, fantastically charismatic actor, sadly the writing seemed to restrict much of his flair till towards the end. Mickey Rourke is pretty cool but except for his motivation don't really get too into the character. I don't want to say they were wasted, but more perfunctory. Tony's crisis through the film has some nice scenes, the party particularly but his friendship with Rhodes wasn't really shown much strength but Downey nails the character again. Cheadle does decent job replacing Howard but the role isn't beefy enough for much difference to be noticed. Scarlett Johansen was a pleasant surprise but her character seemed pretty pointless and her gracing action scene was too reminiscent of Nightwalker in X2. As was the final battle to the original Iron Man, robots fighting but this one was over far too quick.
The film was handled by Favreau well enough, despite the fact he has far too much time on screen. The focus on the film was Tony's crisis but has an underwhelming resolution which leaves a lot of plodding middle redundant. I think a bit too much time was given in leading to The Avengers and, not that i know much of the comics but a more satisfying arc would be the 'demon in the bottle' alcoholism narrative. The climatic battle was ended with another deus ex moment and the confrontation with Rourke was far too short.
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