And it is not nice when you laugh at something that never had intention of being funny. Or a smothered version of Beverly Hills Ninja. A martial art version of Inspector Clouseau or something. Unfortunately, it IS funny if you watch it that way, although totally unintentional. A clueless guy who owns multibillion franchise comes back from the dead and starts ruining everything because he believes he has mythical powers. " Why would anyone put that into the script if all that is surrounding it is mystified especially that 2-3 minutes before that scene we have seen it explicitly? It is very funny when he says "I am billionaire", while all his actions are destroying the business he owns.Īctually, up to the last two episodes, I started laughing when I watched it from a comedic standpoint of view. And even after that they are not sure what they are doing in that new reality.ĭialogs in the family story are so-so, but in Iron Fist story they are appalling. Naivety is a recurrent motive, since at least 3 characters are completely clueless about what is really going on around them, up to the last episode. Family one is emotionally very deep, while Iron Fist has no better task than to keep explaining to everybody if he is or he is not Iron Fist, and if he is, if he knows what he is actually doing. And Iron Fist wants them off the planet but in a clean way, no killing.Īnd that is all that there is to it. All we know is that they want to sell synthetic heroin at the present time. Another story is hide-and-seek about an organization who Iron Fist should mythically destroy, although it is not clear what was the reason that they are historically evil. So the family-part is explicitly using gore to explain emotional despair. Not the best, not the worst, just horror. The first one about a delusional family is a horror. There are two almost independent stories where Iron Fist is initiating the first one, but fully participates in another one. There is one or two flashbacks, mostly about an accident and that is it. The main character, that is Iron Fist, looks like from a kindergarten all the time, and that is probably intentional, because he is, but I am not sure why everybody is asking him to explain what he was doing for 15 years - constantly, and he is explaining it all the same - all the time. At first it looked interesting, but then it never got out of the same feeling of expecting something to start happening. Not sure if I should give 1.5 or 2 and I am not sure what I watched. IF s1 is a big disappointment and I hope the character is able to earn redemption someday, hopefully in the MCU. My best advice with this show is to binge watch it and get it over with as quickly as possible so it doesn't feel like a joyless slog or to not watch it at all to save yourself the boredom. There are some moments in the show that have promise, but they don't generate enough momentum to really get the show going and make it exciting. Jessica Henwick does a decent job of portraying Colleen Wing but she isn't enough to keep the season afloat.
The acting doesn't help much either Finn Jones wasn't the greatest casting choice for Danny Rand and doesn't play the part the way it deserves to be played. There are things that shouldn't have been included in the season and areas that should've gotten a lot more focus. There are also some plainly stupid moments and plot points in the season that just make it ridiculous. The action and martial arts scenes are ok at best and if you're looking for some really good fight sequences I'd recommend you go look at Daredevil, which has top notch fight choreography. The scenes are awkward and don't flow very well, and the chemistry between the actors isn't great either, which makes so many moments in the show feel like a drag. The writing, directing, action and acting are all nowhere near as good as they are in other Marvel Netflix shows and all should've been done differently. IF is a huge miss, and it's disappointing that it's a miss since the story behind this show could've been really engaging and interesting had everything else not been executed so poorly.
This season is evidence that while Marvel has had a lot of success with both movies and TV shows in recent years, they can still be hit or miss. I really can't find anything positive to say about Iron Fist season 1.