A rusty but amusing superhero reboot

Rating: 6/10 (23 July 2013)

I am a huge fan of spider-man and batman comics. Unfortunately I've never been so interested of Iron man. To me he was always just a part of Avengers, nothing big. I was hoping this movies would give me a spark of interest about him and I would start to be a fan him too. Unfortunately it didn't do that.
After Sam Raimi elevated Spiderman to the wide audience and Christopher Nolan rebooted the Batman legend into a masterpiece trilogy it is not a surprise all other superheroes were on queue for rebooting too. Iron man seems to have his audience and movie gained some positive ratings and massive fan phenomena but overall the movie cannot be compared to the previously mentioned or plenty of others superhero movies.
The big problem with the movie is that it takes nearly one hour before any interesting action begins. The whole desert scene is very slow and somewhat ridiculous. Also the main villain is fairly easy to recognize since the first moments. Final fight with him is more of comical than epic. I couldn't help but laugh to this growling giant robot.
On the other hand, the movie isn't hopeless and it has its moments. For example the sky and the flying scenes are very well made. They have a very nice tension in them. The fallout from the sky actually feels in the stomach.
The character, Tony Stark, is a positively different kind of a person in his normal life. Unlike overprotective Peter Parker or Gothic, lonely knight Bruce Wayne, he is very open and even ruthless millionaire which makes a nice difference to the other superhero reboots. The ending where he breaks the cliché of the secret identity is a really effective ending to otherwise fairly average movie. Robert Downey Jr. seems to obviously enjoy his role as Tony Stark and he is a joy to watch. (Although my problem with him was that I saw his Sherlock Holmes movies first and I couldn't help but thinking him as Holmes kicking criminals' asses in robot suit after getting bored of his restricted detective life where such actions weren't possible.)
There is a possibility that I outlooked this movie because I have never been interested about Avengers but I can still safely say that this movie wasn't near the other successful superhero movies like Spiderman, Dark Knight, Watchmen or even, IRONically, Kick-Ass. Although this was a somewhat pleasant movie to watch, I still suggest watching those movies first before spending time with this one.