Nice sets,nice costumes,good CGI effects but NO HUMOUR

Rating: 6/10 (30 September 2008)

I had thought that IRON MAN was supposed to be a action packed adventure story, & since it was based on a comic book I also figured there would be some good humour in it.
The director Jon Favreau is an actor/director who has amused me many times in his past efforts. This time I WAS BORED STIFF.
I was more amused with the awful Batman film with the Governor of California as MR FREEZE, than this movie.
Robert Downey Jr, does a decent job as our reluctant hero, He is an exceptionally capable actor.
Terrence Howard as the Air Force Colonel who is our hero's best buddy. is very good as he always is.
Gwyneth Paltrow is the required girl Friday & of course she is real good.
We of course have a villain & guess what,its the only other name actor in the cast; Jeff Bridges. Now Jeff has been around sound stages since he was a teen actor,& proves he can do a villains role.
Nearly all the action scenes are CGI (computer generated imaging).There are also many explosions.
I was waiting for something exciting to happen. I guess I will have to wait till next weeks, let us hope I can tell you I liked those better. (they should be the next 2 big spring-summer releases----one is about a hulk & the other about a skull)
One other thing I did not appreciate was the depiction of the Afgan characters in the early part of the movie.
Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4) 68 points out of 100) IMDb 6 (out of 10)