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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