More than I thought

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2008)

During the last years we have been witness of an endless number of comics's adaptations to movies. Most of them have resulted films more or less entertaining or achieved. Only characters like Batman on Nolan's hands or even Reimi's Spiderman or Singer's Xmen have been the most redeemable, others like Hulk or Fantastic Four have been good for forget it. Just when I thought that Iron Man would fall on this kind, I took a big surprise.
This Marvel's hero adaptation destroyed all my expectations. And is that from beginning to end Robert Downey Jr. completely takes the entire film. Tony Stark's character is perfectly accomplished and makes that everyone believed his performance. But if that weren't enough Iron Man is surrounded by and endless number of characteristics that makes it appealing to all levels.
This adaptation remains faithful to comic's story, the action sequences are well distributed along the plot, the romantic tension between Downey and Platrow works all time, the Bridges evil dazzles as their performance and the cynicism of most of the sequences makes story fresh and specially striking. But to this should be added the historic contextual framework because fits perfectly with the currently world situation and specially United States that lives in this crossroads between the peace with weapons or without them.
Iron Man is entertaining from beginning to end. Nobody would believe that this could be the best summer film but I can assure you that if the majority of movies that will come has the same quality that this: wow, this could be the best summer talking about movies. Because definitely the film's end leaves you wanting more, and this is just starting.