Best Film This Year So Far!!!

Rating: 10/10 (5 June 2008)

This is so far the only decent film this year. After seeing the poor performance of Cloverfield and National Treasure 2, 2 of the biggest hyped films of the year, I thought that most of the films budget is being spent on the marketing instead of the actual film, but I'm glad to be proved wrong by this film because it was completely awesome.
Filled with action, romance, some witty humour and excellent stock characters, (especially the "Dummy" robot, that was fun).
Storyline was excellent, a child prodagy grows up to be owning the worlds biggest weapons manufacture. He's arrogant, a womenizer, a drunk and doesn't really care much about anything. He goes to Afghanistan for a weapons testing (which is a really awesome weapon), and then gets captured by terrorists and gets a magnet strapped to him to stop him diing.
Now I've never read any of the Iron Man comics, so I didn't know what to expect, but now I just want to read the comics.
Now what really made this film work, was the twist in middle. The main enemy was not the terrorists, but one of Tony's best friends, now that was shocking, and paralyzing device was just so cool, and the battle at the end was great and funny.
Also the magnet thing strapped to his heart was the icing on the cake. The utter suspense of thinking that it will short circuit anytime and then he won't survive. But really how does he take a shower or go swimming, won't the thing short circuit.
Now the thing that I did now about, was Nick Fury and Shield. I was actually waiting for that because I knew Iron Man was apart of it. And then after the credits, when Nick just randomly appeared, I knew at that moment that the sequel is going to be completely awesome.
Another thing, the funnest part has got to be the part near the beginning when that terrorist dude dies for trying to get a headshot on Iron Man, but the bullets gets him in the head. VEry funny.
Well I guess that raps it up, next film is Hancock, see ya.