Stronger than most marvel films

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2008)

When sitting down to watch this movie there was only these thoughts on my mind - how disappointed i would be once again from a Marvel film and the feeling of how they could have done so much more.
But once the film had ended there was no feeling of relief that it does the Marvel icon satisfaction but actually a lot lot more.
Iron Man, maybe not as popular as the Incredible Hulk and Fantastic Four, but this film delivered so much more than the latest instalments of both Fantastic four movies and the dreadful last Incredible Hulk ( will have to see how the new Incredible Hulk turns out before can compare) Iron Man has never had the popularity of Spiderman or X-men but this first Iron Man is better than X-men 3 The Last Stand by a long shot and with it concentrating on Iron Man and his development is for me better than the huge budgeted Spiderman 3 where too much is going on and there is not enough for each character development within the film.
I would go as far and say that so far it is one of the best Marvel films released - ever, i rank it alongside the original feeling i had from X-Men and Spiderman, when they we're released i was blown away, maybe because i had no expectation for this film it was even better for me, with something like Spiderman and X-men we all have high expectations. Iron Man has strong competition from Batman this year for the best superhero movie of 2008 and if bettered by the Dark Knight then we are in for one hell of a year for superheroes, Iron Man has set a new height for marvel films, lets hope they do a sequel without ruining it.