Not intelligent and hardly a superhero movie. Children and stupid people will probably enjoy it a lot

Rating: 6/10 (9 May 2010)

I don't normally write reviews. The fact that this movie at the time of writing has an average vote of 8 compelled me to set the record straight.
A bunch of reviewers called this movie intelligent. From that I can only conclude that they are not. There are so many thing stupidly done I will not even try to state all of them, only the stupidest.
WARNING - there is some stuff that might be regarded as spoilers, but I don't really think they are. I mean, you know there's gonna be a bad guy and a final battle. And the other stuff is from the first thirty minutes so it's hardly spoiling. Don't worry, I've tried hard not to give away anything important, but if you're paranoid, skip the review. But trust me when I tell you the movie is full of stupidity.
First of all - Stark builds some kind of tiny, yet extremely powerful energy source in a remote cave? Stark mentions some ridiculous number as the output power of the device. I can just hear the writer/director/whoever saying "Oh, we'll just mention something the average moviegoer has never heard of, like Palladium, and they'll totally buy it." Well Mr. writer/director/whoever, some of us actually know something about science and can recognize bullshit like this a mile away.
And that's not all. You see, in this cave Stark builds a complete flying exoskeleton using only crude tools, all within a week. All the time being monitored by the bad guys with surveillance cameras. Bad guys who are apparently so stupid that they don't realize what Stark is building isn't even close to what they made him build.
We're not even close to being done here. In his remote cave, Stark also manages to fashion some kind of super-metal that he builds his suit with. A metal so strong that only a thin sheet of it is able to withstand heavy caliber machine gun fire without so much as deforming, much less being penetrated.
Oh, and that little super power generator I told you about? It's apparently indestructible, since Stark doesn't protect it at all - we see it glowing on the chest of his suit.
I forgot to mention that Stark has a hole in his chest. You see, he got some shrapnel in his body and a doctor the bad guys had patch Stark up made this hole in the middle of his chest to put an electromagnet in which was supposed to keep the shrapnel from entering Stark's heart.
Wait, the guy's got shrapnel in his bloodstream? And he's running around the cave no problem? The hole in his skin and sternum doesn't appear to be contributing to any infections either. Then when he gets home he asks his assistant to take out the old power device so he can put in a new and improved version he made. She then proceeds to put her ENTIRE FIST inside his chest where his heart's supposed to be.
This is getting long so I'll wrap it up. Just one stupid cliché for the final battle. Stark in his suit against - you guessed it - a guy in an even bigger suit. Like three times bigger. So big it's not even an exoskeleton, it's a mecha. Honestly, that final battle looked like Transformers. And you know how crappy that movie was.
Regarding the classification of Iron Man as a superhero movie - there isn't much superheroing going on. Aside from the final battle, Stark kicks some ass in his suit for maybe ten minutes. If you want to watch an intelligent superhero movie, I sincerely recommend Watchmen.
In conclusion, the director and writer could have done a much better job. Either they're stupid or they're catering to a stupid audience. Too bad because the idea has potential. Iron Man definitely does not deserve an 8.