"Good Comic Book/Superhero Film!"

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2012)

Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges and Gwyneth Paltrow star in this 2008 action film based on the Marvel comics. This starts off with billionaire playboy industrialist, Tony Stark (Downey Jr.) getting kidnapped in Afghanistan and forced to create a super missile. Instead, he decides to build a super-genetic suit of armor and escapes. When he returns home, he designs another suit and becomes superhero, Iron Man. Bridges plays Tony's long-time business friend, Obadiah Stane whom Tony learns is trying to take over his company and Paltrow plays Tony's secretary, Pepper Potts whom Tony gets romantically involved with. Robert and Jeff are great in this as usual and I recommend this good comic book/superhero film.