It's good. Go see it.

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2008)

I don't see anything really wrong with this movie, save for a somewhat rushed final act. Okay there's this.
SPOILER!
Villain Jeff Bridges is shown having trouble getting his Bigger Iron Man thingie buildt-traditional yelling at the guys in the white coats stuff-but sure enough, there he is, driving Robocop II around, flying it around like a Jet fighters, using it's weapons etc-almost as if he were testing out a Minivan. I'm not so sure about that instantaneous learning curve, lemme put it that way....
But the rest-the stuff showing Downey as Iron Man, Downey as the Hugh Hefner/boozy Howard Hughes cross, the captivity, the interplay w/ Terrence Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow-that's all aces. I loved Jarvis. I really liked all the flight scenes and his taking out the Taliban/Mandarin guys in Afghanistan.
Sure it DOES follow a traditional Origin storyline, and sure you want More, if anything-but-face it, this is what you want in a comicbook hero film.
***1/2 very good.