Iron Man - a bit boring
In a nutshell: A traumatizing near death experience turns an arrogant, super rich fella into an advocate for peace/Mr. nice guy. Unfortunately before starting his charity activities, first he’s got to build a super-armored, armed, flight suite and fight his evil business associate. Nice CGI, however way too little action for a Marvel comic adaptation 
The story: Tony Stark, multimillionaire tycoon/brilliant engineer/jerk/playboy gets hurt during field testing of a new weapon for the US Army. Even worse, he gets kidnapped by cave living terrorists, who want to make him build a weapon. In order to escape he secretly builds an armored combat suite prototype in captivity. The design is so promising, he keeps improving it even after being rescued. Big surprise, the improved suite comes handy when Tony’s business associate decides to do what ever is needed to stop him from changing his life and the objectives of their war profiting syndicate.
Flickcritique says: It’s not happening frequently that I fall asleep watching “an action” movie but I did watching this one. I had a quick nap, somewhere in the middle of the long conversations Don’t get me wrong, Robert Downey Jr. does a great job and Gwyneth Paltrow’s poor performance is being well compensated by (too) few super hot scenes with Leslie Bibb. I even liked the movie but there is just not enough action for a Marvel adaptation. Despite the eye candy and some good sense of humor I was a bit disappointed
Watch it if you liked: Spider-Man (2002), Hulk (2003), The Punisher (2004)
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a bit boring?! you can’t be serious dude! Iron Man rocks big time! you should watch it again I guess
much better then any movie from the ‘watch it if you liked’ section… not the greatest comic adaptation though :-/ good popcorn movie for a rainy sunday in dublin
worth going to the cinema for [think big screen!]