First and foremost, this is a good film, not the best Superhero film by a long shot, but much better than it could have been (i.e. Fantastic Four) - Jon Favreau a leftfield choice, including the actor playing the protagonist; Robert Downey Jnr. both bring the whole thing to life, Downey plays.. Himself - which essentially is Tony Stark - a rich playboy who learns the truth of what his weapons company is turning the world into? 

It's funny to see Downey play these scenes so effortlessly, whereas in Christian Bale seemed to embrace the role of Batman much easier and the playboy side much harder - infect these two films at as opposites to each other, Iron Man is loud and bright, and Batman all Dark and brooding, that's not to say that everything is flowerily in Iron Mans' world - the Dispatching of criminals, the horrors of war are all brought to the screen and forefront -

We don't have time to dwell on these as Iron Man flies into the action and tries to save people. Origin films are tricky at best, like its forbearers (Spider-Man comes to mind) - Iron Man suffers a little from having a good first half – but the second half runs out of Steam - mainly due to the underdeveloped villain- however rather than waste a good villain, Favreau goes for a minor villain and keeps the focus on the origin - whereas Spider-Man wasted Goblin - Iron Man is  pulling no such punches, therefore the audience is less disappointed and more intrigued to see what the next villain in the inevitable franchise will be. 

So above all else this is a really good movie, one for the cinema - and some sort of middle ground between Batman Begins and Spider-Man - which isn't bad company as I think you'll agree.

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