A bloody comedy!

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2009)

'Iron man' is the first superhero movie that is mostly a comedy. Sure, there are lots of fights and all, but it's all about the dialogues and the characters - there were, I think four action sequences in the whole movie.
The movie, refreshingly, doesn't take itself too seriously: Stark stops and explains himself a sum total of one time, for about two sentences. And it makes sense. You see the weapons you have made in the hands of the terrorists, you don't sit back and philosophise, you bam.
It's as simple as that. A man who thinks he's helping the cause of peace finds out he isn't and tries to rectify it.
Yes, the other characters. Well, they are never established. Need I give give Favreau a bigger compliment?