Worth seeing, but I’m not sure it’s a “must see” in the theater. Here’s the problem I had: I expected too much from the film, and it didn’t live up to that. The story is good, the acting good, the effects are good, and the action is good. That’s the problem. It was all good. Nothing really was great.
The biggest let down was that the final trailer really gave away the best sequences in the film. Nothing (and I mean NOTHING) in the movie topped the dogfight and the tank blowing up, both shown in the trailers and ads. With movies like this, you want to tease people with snips without giving away the entire sequence, and the Iron Man trailer had nothing left over.
The music also was a disappointment. They didn’t play Iron Man until the very, very end, and various action sequences didn’t have enough music to cover it. Also, that tank sequence that you can see in the commercial? It was dead silent during that part aside from the sound of the two shots fired. I got what the director was going for, but it needed to be punctuated with more sound/music.
Anyway, I’m picking on details because I was disappointed. Don’t expect to much and you’ll get a great popcorn movie experience.
