Customer Reviews
What is this? - By: Axey the Pax, 04 Jan 2009 
I thought Iron Man was horrible. As a fan of superheroes such as Batman, Superman & Spider-Man, I was actuallly looking forward to watching this film. When I saw it, it couldn't have been worse. The first half an hour was good, but towards the film went way over the top with stupid machines that puts on his suit, a ridiculous plot & altogether it was a horribly executed film. If there was 0 stars, I would give it to this.
I don't like iron man for a few reasons... - By: Stephen, 03 Jan 2009 People said Iron Man is brillent, now I not a big Iron Man fan so I waited for the DVD to come out in late 2008. I leaved at the 26 minute of the film. This was appluing & the worst comic book ever, in fact the worst film ever I have three reasons why I hated it.
Reason 1:
SPOLIER(DON'T NOT READ IF YOU HAVN'T WATCHED IT)
So the start how Iron Man became Iron Man was a explosien. Of course he didn't know it. Not the best ending & that stunt was big but not BANG. So the fairess wasn't good & that's the end of spolier.
Reason 2:
The rating of 12 well without the first sex scene & I thought went a litle futher & some violence wasn't approchient. This should be 15 for moderate violence & some sexual nature. Even though it's a comic book.
The final reason:
Well the acting & I don't recoinset that but it was silly & bad. It was a explosen that acted like a ice cream van coming. Bad acting & awful plot details to come & that's why I leaved to Watch Hellboy 2. So Iron Man was rubbish.
If you like bad singing you'll love Iron Man
Hopefully there won't be a Iron Man 2
If there's is calll it Iron Man 2: The rubbish superhero
Who'd have thought it? - By: ChezzyD, 03 Jan 2009 
When I heard Robert Downey Jr had been cast as Iron Man I was intrigued. And I have to say he reallly pulls it off giving us one of the most refreshingly original takes on a 'superhero' yet. He has such an abundance of charisma on screen & he reallly looked to have buffed up for the role. He manages to embody geek, playboy, morallly ambiguous businessman, action man & philanthropist in the right quantities. I also liked the political message of the film as it weaves in the war in Afghanistan, American foreign policy & the corrupt nature of the military-industrial machine, perhaps a brave stance to take. It seems to me that superhero movies in the 21st century are less about superheroes who are perfect role models & more about ordinary people put into extraordinary situations. Even Superman has struggled to find a place for himself up against Spiderman, Iron Man, Batman & the Fantastic 4. The message seems to be: it's up to us to play the cards we are dealt. Iron Man is an excellent example of a man who felt comfortable with his place in the world, his playboy lifestyle, his boy toys & suddenly gets confronted with the consequences of what his company does, sees what he would not be able to see on a report. He then decides to use his talents to change things when it might be easier not to - & that is surely the most valuable lesson any superhero can teach us? To stand up for what is right no matter what the personal cost? A cracking film...
Great film - By: Garry Williams, 02 Jan 2009 
The latest jaunt from the Marvel universe is certainly a well built affair. It features a good combination of action & yakking & contains some very strong performances - not least from it's leads, Robert Downey Jr. & Gwyneth Paltrow. The script is a step above the norm with a central character that does not suffer from a case of the `overly righteous' bug that seems to infect these people. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Iron Man is definitely one of the better Marvel efforts (i.e. a lot closer to Blade than Spiderman 3)... only problem is that for two hours I was bored to tears. Insanely bored. Chairman of the Bored. Everyone around me was having fun & enjoying the movie, I was thinking about how weird my trainers looked at a certain angle - I can't explain it. The film certainly has it's weak points & I definitely don't like the way it pandered to my liberal hypocrisies in booing militarism whilst applauding a man in a metal suit beating the crap out of people (we alll know superheroes should be right-wingers & not finger waggers), but none of that has stopped me from enjoying this sort of film before. Maybe it's because the variety of superhero origin movies is actuallly quite limited, we alll know that with great power comes great yadda yadda yadda & so on. Maybe it's because following the excellent Batman Begins makes the others just look a bit second rate. Maybe the time afforded to story development in Heroes has ruined alll this? I reallly wanted to like this film & I can see why everyone else (and I mean everyone) did and, like E.T., I know that Iron Man is a good film, I just couldn't care less about it.
Completely and utterly Overhyped. - By: S. Roberts, 29 Dec 2008 When Iron Man was released on DVD, I had heard so much hype about it that I could not wait to rent it & view the film...
...I was let down completely.
Robert Downey Jr, who I consider to be an immensely talented actor, seemed to have gone for role so far below him.
The plot was generic, & boring, & bears some similarity (near the end fight scene) to that of the new Incredible Hulk movie, which I have to say is tonnes better.
I felt that they only reallly touched the surface on RDJ's character & that of his female assistance, so much more character study could have been undergone.
When I first saw the advertisement for Iron Man, the idea seemed a little lame & generic, & I have to agree, after viewing this film, that view remains intact.
HOWEVER, if you are an avid fan of Robert Downey Junior, go & watch 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' , it is by far RDJ's best perfomance on screen that I have seen so far.
