Iron Man review

Iron Man review

I finally got to see this last weekend. Everyone I'd talked to enjoyed it, and I'd seen lots of good reviews, so I was ready to be impressed. It was good, and it was fun. Some points:

• Yeah, Robert Downey is perfect as Tony Stark - arrogant, swaggering rich boy.
• Fabulous supporting cast:
  • Jeff Bridges as the bald second in command with facial hair. Obviously, the bad guy.
  • Gweneth Paltrow as the boss' personal assistant. Some good lines, a nice dress, but a little too much the comic-book cliche. They did make fun of that during the movie, though, which was cute.
    
  • Leslie Bibb as the nosy, annoying investigative journalist. Yes, very hot.
• All that said, the bad guys weren't quite bad enough. Iron Man ends up fighting... another iron man. It did have the feel of Robocop, with the hero being the smaller, less powerful version, figuring out a way to defeat the bigger, tougher version.
• The fight scenes were fabulous. 'Nuff said.
  
• The scenes where Stark is trying to figure out the controls on his new suit were tense and hilarious. The robot assistants were great.

I think I need to catch this one again at Brewvies. Maybe I'll do that after seeing The Hulk. When's a movie coming out about The Avengers? No, the comic book Avengers, not Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg (and I think there was a movie version of that series, but I didn't catch it).