Ironheart

It's horrendous, with a predictable plot and an even worse lead actor. Basically, the movie tries to portray criminals as victims and working class people as evil overlords. I'm not a diehard Iron Man fan but I can clearly see why people would consider this film a travesty... and rightfully so. Imagine buying posters and figurines and then this movie comes out. There's not much to say about the film other than the CGI and music were alright, and it was somewhat watchable if you've already run through all the good series and movies available. If this had come from another studio I might have rated it higher since there are worse films with 7+ ratings but that's not the case here. This could easily mark the end of Marvel Studios.

It looks slick but it suffers from the same issue all the new marvel stuff does.

It's emotionally flat as a pancake and doesn't connect with the people watching.

It makes the same mistakes of going for making a statement at the cost of the story and characters.

Neither the character development or the story are developed remotely enough to make us care and in fact do the opposite much of the time.

Someone likely realized this which is why it got shelved so long.

It's not acolyte or snow white levels of bad its just meh.

It's a shame really the people involved deserved better but they may have already know it was bad.

This is literally the only Marvel thing to not have a single positive character going for it. Riri has been a miscast since Wakanda Forever, but now she has a terrible personality and a pile of terrible decisions just forever nuking the character of Ironheart from ever being viable as anything but a mean, angry villain.

With the exception of Natalie, Clown and Sasha Baron Cohen, this show gets nothing right. The Hood Gang are cringe, Hood himself is this pathetic model, Joe is unlikeable and idiotic, but worst of all none of the motives work for any of these people and none of the plotlines are resolved well, things sort of happen. Even with the dry turds that make up the script so much more could have been made, so much could have been said about the nature of people, the yearning of ambition and the seduction of undoing the past, but NONE of that is truly present.

This so bland, it should never have been made. A failure so complete it makes NWO look alright.

The moral of this show, is you don't have to earn anything.

Riri is amazing, apparently, because everyone says so, but why? Nobody knows, just keep saying she's amazing and it'll stick.

She didn't earn the suit, she's not strong, funny or cool. She's just feels like an NPC who stumbled upon Excalibur laying on the floor and claims she's the king of the world. She helps her fellow students cheat on their tests and projects, seeking her out just to use her to not fail. So she didn't earn anything and she's surrounded by people who didn't earn anything, in fact everyone is just ripping off everyone else, just like Ironheart is a ripoff of Ironman.

Imagine if you went to the valedictorian of your class and said "make this work for me or I'll fail". What kind of message does that send the audience? That it's okay to get by in life if you just let somebody else do your job for you?? That's insane! Tony Stark was the head of a massive successful business and one of the smartest minds on the planet and he didn't need everyone telling him he's amazing. He built a giant mechanical suit in a cave with junk! He made a tiny reactor to keep his heart from getting shredded! Riri simply stole everything! It's like saying "I'm an architect" just because you can put legos together. Awfully terrible start to a mediocre show.

This show suffered from writers who don't understand what makes something dramatic and or interesting, so the writing just drones on and on and on with underwhelming scene after underwhelming scene. There are so many opportunities to make this extraordinary but these people would have to understand enough about creating drama to know how to do that, and they simply do not. This is at every turn, in every scene, and on and on. They seem to believe that savvy tech, and concepts alone will make it interesting, but it doesn't.

I hope they get better writers, soon too, because the basic premise perhaps could be interesting, if . . .