It was good, but not great (contains some spoilers)

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2008)

Iron Man starts with the playful Tony Stark; wealthy, cocky and one of immense reputation and power. After being kidnapped and forced to make weapons for terrorists, he sneakily builds his first prototype suit and blasts his way out of there.
Then he has a change of heart and feels that only he has the responsibility to harness weapons and decides to be a superhero. So far so good.
It all goes downhill once his colleague gets a hold of the secretive prototype suit and makes his own adjustments.
As you might imagine, this should make for some juicy fight scenes. But unfortunately, it does not. The fighting scenes lacked excitement and was not creative at all. There was no sense of urgency and seemed like a spar instead of an actual fight.
Humor is peppered throughout the movie and they weren't too bad. For the first 3/4 of the film, it seemed like it would be a really good movie. But the ending seemed rushed and incomplete. Robert Downey however, captured the essence of Tony Stark very well. The antagonist was simply too cheesy and cliché. It was like just another issue of Ironman, instead of one to remember.