Wicked Adaptation

Rating: 9/10 (2 May 2008)

I'll say this, I've never been in love with the Iron-Man comics. I have always felt that if Marvel could find a way to translate the character to the big screen, however, the results would be awesome. If this is a preview of what the summer movie season has in store, we are all in for a treat. This movie belongs in the categories with Batman Begins and the first Spider-Man installment. In fact, as a franchise, if the writers can continue to come up with believable plot lines and villains for Iron-Man to contend with, Iron-Man could supplant Spider-Man as their best box-office hero.
You can get a plot summary elsewhere, I just want to say the story was good, the cast was great and the action sequences were excellent.
Definitely worth the price of admission....a few times *******slight spoiler below******************************************* To all those people who said Sam Jackson wasn't in their version of the movie, I ask if they waited around until after the credits. He does make an appearance as Nick Fury, standing in Tony's home in Malibu after all the credits roll. Here is where I beg Marvel to NOT MAKE AN AVENGERS MOVIE. Didn't you learn anything from the Fantastic Four and X-Men. Movies about groups of super-heroes are terrible because there isn't enough time to deal with all the characters. Why do you think DC never makes any movies about their super-groups (with the exception of the upcoming JLA movie, and I'm not too optimistic about that one either). Just a suggestion.