Very good but falls short of excellence.

Rating: 9/10 (29 September 2010)

I felt the characters of Samuel L Jackson and Scarlett Johansson(I'm sure I have spelt her name wrong) were given far too little to do and in fact were under-developed especially for a person like me who does not know too much about comic books (as a matter of fact I do not remember the Iron man saga from my childhood at all, must have missed it or something). But I guess it is to be expected in such an action packed film that focuses mainly on Tony Stark aka Iron Man and his best-friends Pepper Potts and Rhody. Mickey Rourke is like a cat with nine lives, the guy just keeps giving as many comebacks as he can possibly be expected to churn out and keeps getting better with age, his Russian accent was so authentic that whenever I looked away from the screen while he was talking, he sounded exactly like my Russian co-worker. I can't wait for part 3.