2008 - Rated PG-13 - 2 hr 6 min
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Faran Tahir, Leslie Bibb, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau, Peter Billingsley
Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man. No joke. I think that's his big secret. No drug or alcohol problems. No rehab. He was secretly off fighting crime in his Iron Man suit.
Which would make this movie a kind of biography...
Anyway, I don't know a lot about the comic or the character, it's true. But this is one of the best Marvel comics-to-big-screen franchises there is. I attribute that to a killer cast, fabulous action sequences, and general kick-assery.
Also, it's fun to see Jeff Bridges be the bad guy. And as unlikely a pair as they seem, Paltrow and Downey have fantastic on-screen chemistry. Still, the best scenes in the entire movie are between Downey and his team of robots as they test the suit again and again. Priceless.
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