Got a chance to see "Iron Man" this week. Quick thought? They got the armor right. They and Robert Downey Jr. more specifically, got Tony Stark right. The rest? Not so much.
My main gripe is that the plot takes too long to tell the story. They also made some strange choices in starting the film at one point and then flashing back 36 hours as a sort of do-over. What was the point of that? Also, the armor tweaking sequence just takes too long. Why spend nearly an hour showing the various stages of work on the armor (twice including the prototypes) but only give seconds to showing how the power source was perfected and devised?
The action sequences were well done. The armor effects were blended in seamlessly. There were no points where I thought to myself "that was totally CGI" as I did when watching the Hulk or Spider-man 1. So good job to the tech boys.
One final note. Jeff Bridges just looks freaky without hair. He should play more villains with that look.
