I am Iron Man

07th May '08 by Andy

I fail to believe anyone could watch Iron Man without a) jumping head over heels into the plot, believing (more or less) every aspect and being completely gripped by the story line, glued to the edge of your seat and b) desperately wanting to give that suit a go. Iron Man really is every bit as good as the reviews state, the first grown up Marvel Action flick (quite literally the first sole Marvel flick, as the studio takes a solo outing to be extremely proud of).

The casting is a master stroke Robert Downey Jr. is every bit the imagining of Tony Stark, playing some brilliant monologues (it still counts as a monologue if you're talking to a mechanical arm, I'm sure of it). Jeff Bridges is outstanding and Gwyneth Paltrow plays off of Tony Stark with such brilliant awkward chemistry, the cast truly make this film.

That said the CG effects are also an absolute triumph, where you can never tell that CG is in use unless they want you too, and then you wish that the CG stuff actually existed and could be used.

All in all this is a real success for Marvel, and long may they continue in this vein, I can't wait for the sequel in 2010!