The quintessential 1963 cyborg...

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2008)

I had high expectations having read the comic and being a fan of Popular Mechanics in my youth and was a bit sceptical that anyone could pull this off, but safe to say and I am wholeheartedly relieved that Robert Downey Jnr had nailed this hands down. The essence of 50's industrialism that was somewhat captured in the Rocketeer but failed in storyline and at the Box Office seems reversed-engineered and refined in Ironman. This tomato is a must-see...its wonderfully and tastefully etched on silver celluloid. Comic fans need not critique. Stan Winston's studios capture the magic of post war polished steel and chromium while Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, and Matt Holloway craft a fantastic story that chronicles the genesis of the original man-machine cum cyborg. Transformers...eat your heart out.
The franchise had been literally begging to be given the Hollywood treatment and by no accounts does this interpretation fail.
"I am Ironman"....what a classic!