User blog comment:Hawkeye2701/Review4U: Iron Man (Film)/@comment-1895174-20140228193954


 * 1) I like to think of Jeff Bridges' Obadiah Stane as the best version of Lex Luthor ever put to film.
 * 2) The only thing I didn't like about this movie was that it felt like two movies made into one. One movie about Tony Stark building his suit of armor while in the Ten Rings' captivity in Afghanistan, and another about him perfecting the suit and eventually fighting Stane.

But that second point also gives this a unique flavor. The meat of the movie isn't Iron Man beating up bad guys, it's Tony Stark becoming Iron Man. It's the fulfillment of what Spider-Man started in 2002 in shifting the focus away from the hero just being the hero and towards watching him become that hero. And Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark is one of the few superheroes just as enjoyable without his mask on.