Don't over-analyze it you cynics!!! It was only a movie....a very very good movie!

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2009)

It was an awesome film, brilliant script, action-packed and brilliant cast. Why can't people just accept that? I don't understand all these naggers on here. I guess you just can't please everyone.
Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark, a billionaire weapons engineer who is kidnapped (during a trip to Afghanistan) to showcase his latest weapon of enemy destruction. While in captivity, with the help of a kidnapped fellow machinist, Stark is able to build a robot (his first prototype for Iron Man) to enable him annihilate his oppressors and escape. Upon his successful mission and given his 3-month stint in a hell hole, Stark decides to re-assess his priorities by changing the image of his company. That does not sit well with his investors and board of directors and Stark's obstinacy only reveals and re-opens more cans of worms as the movie progresses. Gwyneth Paltrow is along for the ride as Pepper Potts, Stark's trusty assistant as is Terrence Howard who plays Stark's best-friend. Leslie Bibb also co-stars as a pesky reporter, all under the wonderful direction by Jon Favreau who does not miss a beat. Iron man is engaging, riveting and filled with the pulse pounding fun we've come to expect from bona-fide Hollywood blockbusters such as this one. A++++