The brilliant origin of the MCU

Rating: 9/10 (13 April 2018)

My family loves taking movies on vacation. Long days at the beach are perfectly capped by a great movie with the background of waves lapping the shore. One of our go to movies is the first "Iron Man". The reason for that is not just that it is mindless summer fun, but that it is great every single time you watch it, no matter how many times you've seen it.
Robert Downey Jr. was born to play Tony Stark, and his portrayal takes a second-tier Marvel character, that I knew about more for being the only comic book character that I knew was an alcoholic than for anything heroic, and made him the most popular comic book character in the movie world. If Infinity War and next year's follow up are his last time putting on the ole'shellhead armor, we have been lucky to see such an iconic role and he owns it from the very first scene.
What is so great about Tony and this first movie especially, is that everything is depending on his intelligence and resilience. He easily could have given up many times, but instead he fights on, and that has continued throughout the MCU. And good lord he is funny.
The only reason this isn't a 10 is because I've always found the ending a little anti-climactic, not as bad as Iron Man 2 in that regard, but still deserved a bigger ending than this had. All in all, when we talk of comic book movies forevermore, this movie will always be in the conversation.