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so.Iron Man-worth the wait?..actually-yes! Its fun, action packed and actually finds room for some character development. The movie seems a little closer to ‘our’ reality rather than Bat or Spider-Man’s, with most of the tech looking workable and having an analogue thats lurking on the fringes of science as we speak(ok ok, maybe not arc-light reactors), and Stark is a nice change from the somewhat flat characterisations we’ve seen in, for example Superman (Yeah yeah, I know thats kinda the point of Supes, but hey), Downey Jnr is actually the movie’s trump card, while I’m not saying that Tobey Maguire et al are bad actors by any stretch, Downey really brings a bit of dramatic heft to Stark which really anchors the movie. The alcoholism is neatly hinted at, as are future developments like War Machine and The Mandarin, although things get borderline cheesy when terror’s attack, in a bit of on screen wish fulfillment for the US gov’ment, and I felt a bit of a lurch in my stomach learning that S.H.E.I.L.D had become the Strategic Homeland Department, rather than Strategic Hazard, but otherwise the whole thing flys along, with wise cracking banter and skull cracking fights. Also-exploding tanks and Jeff Brifdges on a segueway! go see. (PS_if you are a dick who laughs out loud at the trailer for ’superhero movie’, sprays popcorn and kicks the seat rail-don’t go see, you are a dick)