All superhero movies should be this cool!
Iron Man was awesome! This has got to be the most overall-enjoyable superhero movie I have seen in a long time — and there have been quite a few good ones in the last couple of years to measure it up against.
But really — it was great. I had so much fun I want to go back and see it again. And again. And again.
Iron Man is an unusual superhero movie in a number of ways. For one thing, its main character isn’t exactly super. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr. — who is just perfect for the role, by the way) doesn’t have any special powers (unless you count being really smart and good at making stuff), and he definitely has his share of flaws. Nor is he a particularly sympathetic character, at least at the beginning. No mild-mannered reporter or millionaire philanthropist here — this guy runs a weapons company… and not a very responsible one, either. Besides which, he’s kind of a conceited jerk.
Personally, my philosophy on weapons of any variety is that you should never use (or, for that matter, design) anything you would not want to be on the receiving end of, so (like most everybody else in the theatre) I wasn’t too upset when Stark got blasted out of his Humvee (or “fun-vee,” as he called it, as opposed to a “hum-drum-vee”) and dragged off into an underground hide-out by scary Afghani bad guys. I couldn’t think of anybody I would rather see captured by unscrupulous cave-dwelling guerilla terrorists.
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