A pure comic book movie winner!

Rating: 10/10 (19 October 2008)

Multi-billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downy Jr.) is the owner of a successful weapons industry and is the next Howard Hughes. During one visit in Afghanistan, he demonstrates a powerful weapon that works perfectly for the U.S. Army and gets kidnapped by terrorists. He is forced to make his special weapon for them, but instead he uses his mind and skill to create an armored suit that helps him escape from that awful place. As he's sent back to the U.S., his lifetime friend and mentor Obadia (Jeff Bridges) wants to take over the corporation as he sets up a conspiracy. Stark recreates his suit in a better and more technologically advanced prototype that would make him into "Iron Man" in which he serves to protect the public and fight against evil.
Intelligent, action-packed and exciting Sci-fi adventure is based on a Marvel Comic character is one of the best comic book movies in recent memory. Gwyneth Paltrow is sexy as Pepper Potts, Stark's babe-o-licious assistant with Terrence Howard as Colonel Rhodes. It's the greatest Marvel movie since "Spider-Man 2", "X2" or even "Blade 2", Downy Jr. was just fit for the part as much as Christopher Reeve was to Superman, Tobey Mcguire was to Spider-Man, and Christian Bale/Michael Keaton was to Batman. Jeff Bridges made an outstanding villain in this motion picture, The late Stan Winston did the Iron Man suit with ILM doing the CGI effects. This movie stays true to the comic book roots and the acting is just terrific including the smart script with good sequences of action, this is a satisfying and brilliant comic book movie that knows how to be a crowd pleaser even among critics.
P.S. Catch the incredible surprise at the end of the credits that leads up to something promising.