A Super Hero Classic

Rating: 9/10 (17 May 2008)

When I went into theaters, I didn't think Iron Man would be all that good. I thought it would be another comic book-turned-movie mess up like The Hulk, Ghost Rider, or X-Men (excluding X-Men 2 of course). Yet this film is one of the greater super hero movies I've seen. With its superb visuals to its magnificent main character played by Robert Downey Jr. who seems like he was born for the role of Tony Stark a.k.a Iron Man. It begins when Tony Stark is in Afghanistan on an army convoy when it's attacked by terrorists. He is captured and is forced to build a missile of his own for the terrorists to use in dominating Asia and possibly even the world in time. Instead, he secretly builds a suit of armor that helps him escape ultimately leading to his rescue. When he gets back to the U.S. he decides to no longer build weapons and put people in harms way. He builds two suits, the Mark II and the Mark III that he uses to fight against the same terrorists that captured him. Eventually Obadiah Stane, who is sort of second in command at Stark Industries, uses his own suit and becomes Iron Monger, trying to kill Iron Man so he can rule over Stark Industries himself. The movies' combined action, visual effects, characters, and humor make this movie one of the top three super hero movies of all time.