As good as a man of steel!

Rating: 9/10 (31 May 2008)

When the Iron Man movie was announced, I was unusually ambivalent (unusual as I'm a massive comics nerd with a ton of IM comics amongst my megaton collection). Casting news and rumours still failed to spark in my imagination (possibly as the scars of the execrable Spider-Man 3 had me fearing the comic movie bubble had burst). Then the news that Robert Downey Jnr came through and I thought "Mmmmminteresting". Then, well, then came the first trailer  a riot of action, tongue in cheek humour, spectacle, rock n' roll and, in Tony Stark, possibly the best realised alter ego since Christopher Reeve first arrived in Metropolis. Against my usual efforts to not get my hopes up, I began to look forward to Iron Man, and by the time that I saw it, my expectations were huge. And, most shockingly of all, it totally delivered on all counts. This is, for my money, the best superhero film since Superman II. That's all I've got to say. If you haven't seen it, rectify that right now!