Oh well. At least it wasn’t awful. Two words spring imme­di­ately to mind: for­mu­laic and shal­low. Not that there’s any­thing wrong with being for­mu­laic and shal­low — indeed many for­mu­laic and shal­low pic­tures nonethe­less rake in the big bucks — but for­mu­las become pre­dictable, and pre­dictabil­ity kills immer­sion unless the char­ac­ters are inter­est­ing enough. Here, they weren’t. They just weren’t devel­oped enough to make me care. Bat­man Begins fol­lows much the same for­mula, but in that film, we had real char­ac­ter depth and con­flict. We dig into Bruce Wayne’s moti­va­tions. We don’t do that with Tony Stark, so we don’t care [ . . . ]

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