More or less just the usual presentation

Rating: 4/10 (9 October 2008)

of US Army technology (remember "The Hulk"?). In some parts quite funny, but that's it, except for very good acting by Downey jr. and Bridges. If you consider the roots of the figure of Iron Man and look at the mess they created with this movie you could really cry because the figure itself has a lot of potential. In this movie it was only used as vehicle for something else. You just have to look at the "symbols" used: Afghanistan, terrorists, USA as the usual stand for freedom, and so on and so on. Please, Hollywood-Military-complex, give us a break. If really wanted, one could also do this with another story, take something like "Black Hawk down" and go for it, but don't convert a comic figure into a messenger of ever repeated US values and such. So: Four stars just because of Downey, without him only three or maybe even two.