First, this item from Jeff Wells is a long, drawn out way of saying the film is just, well — okay. I wonder if this is going to be the norm, a lot of passable opinions but nothing really in the way of a rave.
Next up, Todd McCarthy offers insight, I’d say a little too quickly after the screening for a publication of Variety’s stature. And Eric Kohn (Corrected — Apologies to Eugene Hernandez.) of indieWIRE actually live blogged the screening, which is quite silly and unfortunate, I’d say.
By the way, having not seen one frame and likely irritated by that fact, David Poland takes a piss out of both publications, in addition to badgering the Times of London for its uber-early review. Just so I’m covering all the bases here.
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“First, this item from Jeff Wells is a long, drawn out way of saying the film is just, well — okay. ”
Read it again. You can twist it however you like but the review is quite a bit more positive than that.
Also, I just returned from “Iron Man” and the film is just, well – crap. Thought I’d share. There’s suspense of desbelief and then there’s a guy building a complicated (and rather obvious) weapon right before the terrorist’s eyes and using it to kill them. Also, Pepper Potts was one of the most underwritten one dimensional characters in any comic book movie.
It was put together better than I expected though, I’ll give it that much. I just couldn’t enjoy it.
Why? Cause it’s a summer movie? I think it’s one of the best of the year, and Robert Downey, Jr., was fantastic.