Iron Man... Indeed iron character

Rating: 8/10 (7 October 2008)

First I would like to say that I'm not a "grand connaisseur" of Iron Man. I mostly have a general interest in comic books.
To say that this movie has solid content would be rather pushing it. It follows a pretty basic storyline, the content follows a good exploitation of a comic book/comedy/action adventure. I hate to say it but the whole "terrorist" intro was a bit off for me (Like in the 80' and/or in the early 90' the communists we're the bad guys... Cheap political statement) Also it just felt a little forced (the drama and the bad guys, still in the intro here). Then I said to myself, is there another way to start off without losing respect from the original beginning of the comic book. Thank god it wasn't all about them.
In fact, contrary to superhero movies like the first Batman (Tim Burton), where the bad guy (Joker played by Jack Nicholson) is actually more polished than the actual hero, I think Iron Man suffers from not having enough significant challenges from its enemies... Either I feel Iron Man didn't struggle enough or the bad guys weren't enough "bad ass" if I must say (Jeff Bridges as a bad guy... not great). This is probably the only downer I can find.
Instead of going deep into the psychological aspect of the main character, we are presented a straight up fearless, happy-go-lucky, cynical, genius with a dysfunctional "rich kid" behavior "personnage". And the best thing about it is that we get it and it works from the first glance at Stark played by the very versatile Robert Downey Jr..
Overall, great special effects, great characters, good action and easy to follow storyline. It's fun and it's cool, the parents will love it and the kids will want to see it again.