Very good overall

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2008)

A few mild spoilers ensue.
Downey does a great job. The plot is good. The technological display is excellent. The ironman suit is awesome.
Some aspects of the plot strain credulity - like the chairman of the board being able to throw together an iron monger suit, one even more advanced than ironman's. Stark will quickly start dying without his arc generator, but at the end of the movie somehow he's fine after both existent ones are destroyed in the final fight.
Sorry, Palthrow left me unmoved, as did the Stark-Potts romance angle. I think they could have saved a lot of money with a relative unknown. But I guess the industry banks on big names to bring in box office, eh?
The final fight was spectacular, but I found the details of its action very unclear.
Overall though, a very good job. Very entertaining, and in the end goodness and personal virtue triumph. I'm glad the Stark character finds himself.
But how is he ever going to cope with divulging his identity? Secret identities protect loved ones and enable the hero to operate with discretion. Stark has the somewhat lovable trait of blurting out what he's thinking, but this time it seems he's bitten off more than he'll be able to chew. I don't get where this is supposed to go.
Finally, I sat through the credits for the famed bonus scene. Whoop de do. Frankly, it was a waste of time. And they didn't even give us secret decoder rings!