Iron Man

Directed in 2008 by Jon Favreau, this superhero movie starts when a wealthy industrialist, Tony Stark, is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he decides to use its technology to fight against evil as well as shutting his weapon industry. 

The movie stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/IronMan, Gwyneth Patlrow as Pepper Potts, his assistant, and Terrence Howard as Rhodey.

I just jumped into this after watching The Avengers and loving Tony Stark/ IronMan. I wasn't expecting much, but the characteristic charm that I loved in The Avengers, and I have to say I wasn't left down. 

So the movie isn't your multiple-oscar-winning-deep-thought-and-metaphysical movie. This is just for entertainment. The plot is rather simple, yet consistent, the evil guys are obvious, but intelligent, the battles are explosion-filled with loads of glass flying around. It's cool and the visual effects are just magnificent. 

The best part of the movie is Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark. For those who don't know IronMan let me give you a heads up about the main character: there where other superheroes get knocked on the head and pushed towards helping people in need, altruism, being kind, being responible, etc, knight in shinging armour, etc - which in the end makes them rather lame, obvious and predictible as well as boring, Tony Stark is selfish, narcisistic, stinking rich, works developing weapons, drinks too much, cares too little... He's very happy with the system and ignores all the rules, doing whatever he wants whenever he wants to. And that's great. He has a terrible character and it's funny. It's refreshing and makes you love the guy, even though you would wanna kill him if you ever met him in person. 

Which is probably what Pepper Potts - played by Gweneth Paltrow - wants to do more than once. She's Tony Starks assistant/motherfigure/person-for-everything. She and her boss are in love, but they kind of keep denying it. There are very few akward moments due to their mutual feelings. 

That's another cool thing about the movie. Unlike most superhero movies I've seen like Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Tony Starks love life has a very low relevance in this movie. Whenever Pepper's life is threatened she either kicks the crap out of the threat, or is safed by Iron Man. That's it. There's no big sacrifice from IronMan so that Pepper won't be in danger anymore. That would be out of character and probably hasn't crossed his mind. 

The battles are pretty well done, with stunning effects and magnificent technology. 

I really, like the ending. The very end of the movie in which Tony Stark is confronted by the press and has been told not to reveal his secret identity.... You can imagine how Tony Stark answers to the press questions. 

IRONMAN TRAILER

So if you like superheroes, check this one out. If you don't, check it out anyway, there's fire, robots, plus a hot guy runing around in sleveless-tight-shirts. That alone should be worth it.