"The biggest miscast of the movie is Jeff Bridges, known best to most
college students as the Dude from 1998's cult classic "The Big
Lebowski." Here he plays Obadiah Stane, Stark's business partner who
arranges for our hero's kidnapping. Bridges is armed with a shaved head
to look more evil, but despite the wardrobe, it's just hard to see him
as a villain.
From
here on out, the movie ceases to be topical and becomes far more
comical. Product placements abound throughout the movie, and as the
Ray's pizza boxes and Verizon cell phone shots pile up; it's easy to
see the movie for what it really is - another poorly made Hollywood
blockbuster, glossed over with enough explosions and visual effects for
no one to care.
Let's face it, Iron Man was never that great of a superhero to begin with - his whole billionaire with a heart of gold shtick? So Batman. Iron Man isn't even interesting enough to make in the top five best X-Men characters, with superpowers that consist of basically flying and shooting energy bursts out of his hands.
