Exceeds expectations

Rating: Null/10 (12 September 2008)

Starts out a little slow, but gets onto the good stuff immediately. Robert Downey Jr. does a great job as Tony Stark, as does Gwyneth Paltrow whose very easy on the eyes, one of the best female leads in a superhero movie I've ever seen. Iron Man has some of the best special effects and cinematography and this is what saves it from being mediocre. The scene with the F-22 Raptors is one of the very best and most memorable, it was simply INTENSE. The final battle was okay, a duel between two robot suits, looked very much like Transformers if I'm being honest.
The storyline was cack though. I'm not a follower of the comic books, but I really hated the whole Afghanistan back story. I watch superhero flicks to escape from the real world a little bit, not watch a guy in a robot suit bash the hell out of Middle Eastern terrorists. Although, the scenes where Iron Man flew in to save the day were quite moving and brilliant. There is much potential here and I very much look forward to sequels, I just hope his adversaries are more technologically advanced, and not real world villains or drug dealers. Although they could make pretty good cannon fodder.