My Review

Rating: 9/10 (25 September 2008)

Millionaire playboy Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) travels to Afghanistan to showcase his new weapons inventions to the army. While there, he's taken captive (thanks to his own weaponry) and imprisoned for three months. During that time he invents a suit of armor that's also heavy on the artillery, and manages to escape his captors.
Back home, he and his secretary Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow) work on changing the Stark name - by eliminating all weapons from the program. This infuriates Stark's right hand man Obadiah (Jeff Bridges) as well as Stark's good friend Rhodey (Terrence Howard). Obadiah is soon revealed to be the bad guy in the film, and gets his hands on Stark's original suit design. This leads to a major battle between Iron Man and the Iron Monger.
Once again, Marvel delivers a spectacular superhero movie (we'll just ignore "Elektra" and "Hulk" ever existed). Downey Jr. returns in a major way, delivering Tony Stark with dry humor, wit, intelligence, and even some heart. From beginning to end, "Iron Man" is a marvel of a film, and shouldn't be missed.