What the hell did I just watch? I believe it was a movie that was about some butt-hurt scientist that made a career change to terrorism. Wasn't clear to me what the big payoff to that plan was. Oh, and the Mandarin made a sorta-but-not-really-cameo appearance in a dumb plot twist.
What to say? Okay, the visual effects were good as usual, if not a bit tiring by now. Can't think of much else. Maybe that's the problem: nothing surprises us anymore. What's left is the plot to deal with, and the plot sucked. Instead of getting to see Ben Kingsley kick some ass, I spent over 2 hours in the theater watching some petty hotshots exercise their self-esteem problems.
I suppose any movie that starts out playing Eiffel 65's Blue is going to be crappy.
What's with the 'bad guys' in this film? Suddenly everyone is Johnny Storm from the Fantastic Four. Bleh, boring. Aldrich even shot a beam of fire out of his mouth a la Godzilla. Why stop there when you could also have him chuck bouncing fireballs like Mario?
Superhero movies need to go away for a long, long time.
RATING: 2.5 out of 5.0
