Okay, I admit it. I'm a geek. I might not look like one or act like one in public but I am. I've just watched the Iron Man movie, and I can't get rid of this ridiculous grin I have over my face. I loved it! I'm not the biggest Iron Man fan in the world — I'm sure I have fewer than a hundred issues of the comic, but something about the movie clicked with me.
The story: When arms manufacturer Tony Stark is held hostage by terrorists and ordered to create a devastating weapon for his captors he surreptitiously creates a super powered suit of armour to escape. Now he decides to stop building weapons and to use his genius and an upgraded armour design to fight terror and tyranny.
Robert Downey Jr is perfect in the role of Stark with an ability to flip from a devil may care attitude to indifference to tortured soul with ease and sensitivity. Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrance Howard and a bald Jeff Bridges have enough clout as character actors to ensure this movie stays firmly on the right side of fantasy-action adventure.
And for all you comic fans out there: please please please please stay for the end credits — that's the VERY end credits. Past the Best Boy and Foley and the hundred of bods who help erase the strings, past the song credits, yes, even past the Paniflex and MPAA logos. There's about a minute of more movie. If you love comics — Marvel Comics that is, then you have to see this last scene. I won't spoil it for you, but suffice to say that's why i still have the grin on my face. If you don't read comics then go home and save yourself five minutes. Nuff said.
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