Above Average

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2013)

"Tony Stark" (Robert Downing Jr.) is a wealthy industrialist who specializes in the making of military hardware. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile system he is seriously injured while being kidnapped by militants. Fortunately a doctor who was also kidnapped named "Yinsen" (Shaun Tomb) manages to keep Tony alive with a new device that is hooked up to his heart and powered by a car battery. Effective but crude. Naturally, it isn't long before Tony manages to make some improvements upon it in order to allow him greater mobility and a better power source. Once that is accomplished he then sets about creating an armored suit for himself while his captors think he is building his new missile system for them. Anyway, rather than disclosing all of the details let me just say that at first I wasn't expecting too much from this movie figuring that it was nothing but action and CGI. And while it definitely has both of these elements it also has some great humor and pretty good acting as well. Along with that, Gwyneth Paltrow (as "Pepper Potts") and Leslie Bibb ("Christine Everhart") also add some rather nice scenery. In short, this turned out to be an extremely pleasant surprise for me and I heartedly recommend this movie for all audiences. Above average.