Marvel Cinematic Universe starting Point.

Rating: 9/10 (20 September 2016)

In honor of the release of Dr. Strangle in the next October, I will review the first play boy arrogant human in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Antony Edward Stark aka Iron Man. What is to said about this billion-er Playboy Philanthropised that it hasn't said before but anyway this is my review and here we go.
Before the 2008 theatrical appearance, Iron Man was consider a B-level hero, unlike Spiderman and the X-men, so he didn't had any big fan base, with the majority knowing him by the Spiderman series of 1993 and his own solo series which isn't the best animated series to say the truth. The reason why the newly found (back in 2004) Marvel Studio started making his movie was that he ,like the rest of his nowadays fellow Avengers were the only characters the Studio afford to buy off. So here is the know well known story why the movie was made.
To the movie's story: After his captivity by rebels in Afghanistan ,the billion-er,genius, engineer Tony Stark has a change of heart (literaly) and he designs an armored suit in order to fight crime. What makes the movie as awesome as it is, is Robert Downey Jr. portrait that perfectly shows how an arrogant man deals with the realization that his action do more harm than good in the world and he turns around in order to redeem himself. To be fair and the rest of the cast are good but Downey steals the show. And the reason for that is, he had only to play himself as he had hit rock bottom with drugs a few years before the movie and that film was his come back. Wow!
The other major thing that defined the future of the MCU was the tone. Though it has its darker moments the movie is pretty colorful, funny and exciting, in short you want to watch over and over again. And here is when a perfect storm of greatness began ,for after it, the rest of the Avengers start popping out like Hulk, Captain America ,Black Widow, Hawkeye and Thor and conclude with the amazing film that is the Avengers(2012). To be more clear if this movie sucked then probably the superhero genre wouldn't be as big as it is now. And to be real between 2005 and 2009 the comic book movies( including the superheroes) especially the Marvel ones were in a decline.
This was because they either try to copy the Batman Begins tone and end up lame or just not as great as they could be (see Elektra(2005),Constantine(2005), Spiderman 3(2007), Spirit (2008) and Watchmen (2009)( to be fair it was OK) etc.) or just the studio run out of ideas and made a piece of junk (X-men the last stand, Fantastic four ,Fantastic Four 2 and the Ghost Rider movies etc.) so when Ironman came out start to change the tide and making way for the MCU and even the newest X-men films to bring our modern mythology back to the spotlight.
In the end ,Iron Man is a great film and one of my favorites superhero movies and MCU films even to this day.