This year is proving to be quite the year for Riri Williams as she is not only going to be a main character in the Iron Man And His Awesome Friends kids animated series but her very own live action series has just released it's final three episodes. Given that last week I promised that i'd review the show as a whole this week i'm going to be doing exactly that and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show the show where the second half of the show is alot more better then the first half of the show with the show in question being called simply just "Ironheart" enjoy.
The plot of this show is sometime after the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Riri Williams finds herself being kicked out of MIT and so she moves back home to Chicago where she quickly falls in with a group of thief's where she must find out if she truly is a good person or not. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time it wasn't all that good with the plot as whole being done alot more better in the second half of the show as it felt like that there was some actual stakes in those final three episodes where as in the first three episodes of the show it kind of felt like that the characters were just doing things because the plot demanded that they do it with the main plot of the show barely getting any focus during those first three episodes which made all the more surprising when the final three episodes actually gave the plot of the show alot more focus with it being in these final three episodes where we get to see just how much promise that this shows plot had but because of the fact that the makers of this show chose not to actually focus and develop the shows plot early on this shows plot does feel rushed and undercooked alot of the time somethin which could have been fixed if the makers of this show actually cared about the plot and gave it the focus that it really did need early on in the show and not when the show was almost over with the plot of this show also being really rather entertaining and as as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this show is Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams / Ironheart and Lyric Ross as Natalie Washington / N.A.T.A.L.I.E.. Also starring in this show is Manny Montana as John King , Matthew Elam as Xavier Washington , Anthony Ramos as Parker Robbins / Hood , Anji White as Ronnie Williams , Jim Rash as Wilkes , Eric André as Stuart Clarke / Rampage , Paul Calderón as Arthur Robbins , Regan Aliyah as Zelma Stanton , Sonia Denis as Clown , Shea Couleé as Ulysses Lugman / Slug , Zoe Terakes as Jeri Blood , Shakira Barrera as Roz Blood , Alden Ehrenreich as Joe McGillicuddy , Harper Anthony as Landon , LaRoyce Hawkins as Gary Williams , Alyse Elna Lewis as Young Riri Williams , Tanya Christiansen as Heather and Voice Acting legend Cree Summer as Madeline Stanton.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I inn all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. As alot of this shows actors are some really good actors in their own right even tho quite alot of them haven't been in anything all that major there is still quite alot of talent on display here with that being something that really come through in all six of this shows episodes as all of this shows actors at some point do get a time to shone be it because there doing something dramatic or there doing something comedic they do all get the chance to show us just what they can do as an actor with that being true for the shows best actor who is Lyric Ross as she is just a joy to watch as Natalie as the character can be laugh out loud funny at times and yet then in the same scene say something that's really dramatic and all of it works because of how good of an actor that she is and while Dominique Thorne really does have the slight advantage in that she ha played Riri Williams the longest she is still trying to find her character where as with Lyric Ross it does look like that she found her character right away and was just having fun with her character with that being something that really does shine through in the final show with the acting that's in this very show really not being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so bad as they give none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show.
Doing the CGI for this show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Legacy Effects and Tippett Studio. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGU that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad for the most part as while yes granted you can very easily tell that this show either had a very small effects budget or the effects teams where being rushed as the quality of the shows effects does very from episode to episode with some of the shows episodes having some pretty decent looking CGI in them and the rest having some really bad looking CGI in them however this isn't something that's just an issue for this show as it's an issue for every single live action MCU show but to be fair to this show tho when the show does have some really nice looking effects in it they do look really good with there being some effects in the final episode of the show that do look really good and there are some scenes in the shows first episode that do look so good that they could belong in a movie which does make sense as you always want to lead with your best foot forward and the effects in both episode one and episode six are just two examples of episodes that do have some really good looking CGI in them but alot of the time tho this shows effects do look fake almost as if Marvel couldn't decide what they wanted in the scene and so they had the effects do a rush job and very quickly throw something together which never looks good and it doesn't look good here either with it being made painfully obvious when this show does have a bad looking effect because of the fact that the rest of the shows effects really are pretty good.
SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The final three episodes of this show has three plot twists all of which I predicted either earlier on in episode five , the last few moments of episode six or in last weeks post about the first three episode of this show as we finally get the big reveal of Sacha Baron Cohen as Mephisto. With the character here kind of being like a mob boss type of character in that he's willing to give Parker everything that he desires and in this case even the tools to do with the only thing that he wants from him is his soul which is something that does make the character a little bit more interesting then what he really could have been as by all rights this could have been a huge let down for the character especially given the hype that's been built up over the past three years and yet while he doesn't get all that much to do in the shows sixth and final episode with him being more of a behind the scenes kind of character the episode does use him in the right way as they do built up some suspense about who this character is and what he can do with even Riri at first believing him to be Dormammu only for him to laugh it of and say that Dormammu isn't even fit to lick his boots which that right there is more then enough to tell us the audience that this character is one that's not to be messed and while there is more then good chance that he will get messed up as a character the more times that he appears in MCU movies and TV shows in his first appearance the character was handled pretty well with Sacha Baron Cohen even switching between using an American accent when he's trying to seduce people into letting him influence them and straight using a British accent when's mad at them which is a nice little touch and is something that does play to the strengths of Sacha Baron Cohen who can do some really good accents.
The other two plot twists that I predicted would happen are the fact that Natalie "dies" at the end of the shows fifth episode and the fact that Riri agrees to let Mephisto give her some of his power so that he can bring her back at the end of the shows sixth episode. While the very idea of Riri having the power of an evil god inside of her does create some interesting possibilities moving forward with other MCU movies it's also something that does feel out of place given what the whole show was about as the whole show was about learning to come to terms with the death of loved one something that Riri herself had started to do proper oddly enough in the shows sixth episode and yet the makers of this show just undo all of that by revealing that she's now pretty much working with Mephisto because once again she couldn't face the facts that a loved one had died only now it's not the AI version of Natalie that gets brought back it's the real person and the very fact that these plot twists are ones that you can see coming a mile while it doesn't make them bad as these kinds of twists can have worked well enough before in other media it's the fact that the makers of the show sign post that there coming as in episode five they have the character of Zelma Stanton just straight up say that magic comes at a price which right there tells you that one of the characters will die and because it's Marvel you know right away that it's not going to be any of the human characters which only leaves you Natalie a character that was already dead in the first place and due to how it's shown in the sixth episode it's made pretty clear that Riri is going to be working with Mephisto before the episode actually reveals so it makes what should really have been a really cool plot twist seem predictable because of the fact that you already know that it's coming.
Due to this show only being six episodes long and the fact that the entire series was released over the span of two weeks it does mean Parker is left with being a really weak villain. As it takes us all the way until the shows final episode to find out why he's doing what he's doing with us only getting some backstory for the character in the shows fourth episode which at that point is to little to late as we're over the halfway make and by then the characters should be as fully developed as there going to get but for one reason or another the makers of this show waited until the last possible second to give what should have been a really cool and interesting villain some backstory and motive with it being revealed that he's doing all of these crimes because of the fact that he wants money and power which granted is a very generic scheme for a villain to have but given that these MCU live action TV shows are meant to be focusing more on street level heroes it's forgivable but what isn't forgivable is waiting until the show is almost over to give him this backstory and motive as since this is only a six episode show this is something that should have been doing since episode one at the earliest and episode three at the absolute latest as then it gives us the audience more of a reason to hate this character and yet because this character got all of this in the second half of the show it makes him feel like an undercooked villain that was treated more of an afterthought which makes him a character that will very quickly be forgotten about this is despite the fact that show ends with a tease of him coming back to face Riri again somewhere else down the line.
Now then this show really has / had an exact grand total running time of no longer then fifty six minuets. With each episode ranging from as little as thirty nine minuets to as long as fifty six minuets which to be fair to this show is pretty much the norm for these live action MCU shows with this show really having the right amount of plot of there needed to cover that six episode count but at the same time tho it would have helped this show out quite alot if the show had more episodes as then the show would be allowed to use it's running time more wisely be devoting more screen time into developing it's plot since as thigs stand the opening three episodes is basically just the set up with these other three episodes being about the pay off and it's these final three episodes that are actually alot more better then what the first three are because of the fact that they focus alot more on the plot with it being these final three episodes where we get some small character development be it with Riri going from someone who is willing to use people to get what she wants to someone who is willing to use people sometimes to get what she wants or from Parker who thanks to the events of the third episodes takes a nose dive of the sanity board and becomes this full on insane person who is willing to do whatever it takes to get revenge on those that are closest to him and yet none of this development or plot progression is presented in any of the shows first three episodes which makes those episodes feel pointless to watch as they other nothing of value where as with these final three episodes this is where you get the decent stuff in this show but I really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. With the show having plenty of really done action scene in all of it's six episodes and while this shows action will never be as good as the action that's in Daredevil: Born Again but given the fact that the main character of this show is someone who has to make her own powers we do get some really fun filled action scenes all throughout this show with it being in this shows action scenes where we get to some really good looking effects as well with the best action scene in the whole show being the fight scene at the end of episode as we get to see just what Riri can do when she's not in the suit and while she's not the best hand to hand fighter there is that's something that does make alot of sense as she's only a kid and when you add in the fact that it's in that episode where we see Riri kill someone albeit in self defense it is something that does have long lasting consequences for the rest of the show as well as the person that she kills is Parker's close cousin John which is something that does make the beef between Riri and Parker personal with the fight itself being something that was really done something that is also true for the action in alot of this show as well with alot of the action in this show being very well done and alot more better then what it really had right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Overall whilst the first half of this show might be pretty bad the second half of the show is a little bit more better but that won't matter because of the fact that the first half pf the show was as bad as it was with this hopefully making Disney think twice about releasing whole series of a show in just two weeks as it really is a bad idea with this show being a good example of just how bad of an idea that it is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this show really does earn itself a grand old score of a exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very post being the really great the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them being better quality then what'd think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.