The Start to A Promising Franchise

Rating: 8/10 (5 May 2008)

It's a rare to see near-perfect casting, the cast ably preforming their parts, the direction great, the cinematography crisp, the script coming from a real direction and the CGI not look campy or cheesy. Well Iron Man did this, and did it without looking in over it's head.
Spiderman stressed the "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" line and did it great too. Batman Begins made a superhero, human, sure Batman isn't a superhero per-say, but that was his appeal. Iron Man actually pulls off both of these.
Tony Stark a genius billionaire Arms Manufacturer has a near death experience after he is kidnapped in Afganistan and forced to build a missile for his captors. While in captivity, Tony sees that his captors have most of Tony's weapons (that he later finds have been funded to them under the table, through STARK INDUSTRIES) and they are killing innocent people. Tony escapes by building the first Iron Man suit, he is brought home and he comes to the realization that he can do something about his weapons killing innocent people. He builds the more perfected Iron Man suit. With this he fights injustice basically.
The Action is sparse, but I really enjoyed it, It shows the movie wasn't hiding behind the action but that action stands WITH the character development and plot.
I would say this movie is a 8.5, but I'd rather give this a nine before I gave it an 8. This was a great start of a franchise that should go on for a long time.