Marvel meets RoboCop... Wait, thay already did that... Okay, Marvel makes a movie with cool RoboCop-like stuff...

So the movie begins with Tony Stark played Robert Downey Jr. selling weapons to the military when the whole Air Force Humvee convoy gets attacked by terrorists and he gets shrapnel deep in his chest from own of his own weapons, nearly killing him. Hmmm... Maybe Irony Man would've been a better name for this character. We then get a flashback to what led to these events and see Stark's more than a lazy asshole sleeping with a bitchy news reporter with the famous Marvel "I'm better than you" attitude, drinking, gambling, essentially giving his company and responsibility the middle finger much like Oliver Queen does before turning into Green Arrow. So now he's a prisoner in a middle-eastern terrorist cave (rascists) with a magnet in his chest to keep the shrapnel going into his heart and is told to build weapons for the terrorists or die. Instead he builds a robo-suit as badass as ED-209 to fight off the terrorists, protect himself from gunfire, and fly the Hell outta there... Huh, letting the genius mechanic/weapon designer build weapons himself kinda bit them in the ass didn't it?

"... Good point, Irony Man IS sounding like a better title."
-Tony "Iron Sherlock Holmes Man" Stark

So he goes home, says the company is in the wrong now for building weapons as they're falling in the wrong hands and doing more harm than good (Helllllloooooooooo! Weapons! Things that kill people! Watch the Schwarzenegger movie called Eraser, Stark and company!) and he gets a hair up his ass that he should become a vigilante loaded with kickass armor and gadgets (Batman! Seriously, is Marvel/Stan Lee taking notes on every little thing DC already made?) and takes the fight to the terrorists in a stylish new hot rod inspired battlesuit in a action sequence that is totally badass where he's punching through walls to grab bad guys, using advanced targeting to take down terrorists with hostages, this guy could be RoboCop's baby brother! ... No, I'm not saying it's a ripoff this time, the machinary and action sequences just really remind me of one of my childhood favorite flicks...

"My prime directives are serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law, and never oppose a Marvel employee..."
-Iron Man

Come to find out, one of Stark's most trusted family friends and man of high power in the company is secretly building his own battle-suit and steals the ultrapower plant inside Stark's chest that is powering that magnet keeping the shrapnel out of his heart. Getting a spare battery from a little helper bot, Iron Man suits up and with his strong sense of justice and doing what's right (Which he seemed to ignore his entire life and just discovered a few days prior) must go to the traitor's lab and well, get his ass handed to him by a bigger robot... Also like RoboCop fighting ED-209. Won't reveal what happens but OBVIOUSLY with several sequels and spin-offs are starring Robert Downey Jr. now, clearly he doesn't lose the fight. After the credits he's greeted by a mysterious man in his apartment giving him a proprosal... I'm sorry but if I got home, lights were out and there's a mysterious guy there my first thought would be "Shit, where's my Iron-RoboBat-Man suit?!"

So you're probably thinking I hate this movie and see nothing but ripoffs? Well you're half-right, I don't respect Marvel's/Stan Lee's so called "original and creative" ideas when SO MUCH seems to be borrowed from elsewhere. But at the time good comic movies were often hit or miss with the audience and this one has a lot of cool action, special effects are great, isn't full of characters that aren't content with their own films and have to jump into someone else's, and it is a good story of a rich playboy getting bitch slapped by reality and the horrors of what his company's doing even if we have seen that countless times before. Although there's this geeky agent dweeb in the film and Stark acts technogeeky and "matter of fact" in a scene, it's not as over played as most of Marvel's stuff about the super awkward nerdy guy with a super babe of a girlfriend and etc etc blah blah blah.This one's enjoyable and I give Iron Man 4 out 5 IronRoboBat gadgets! To the ripoff mobile, boy-not a ripoff and is from the genius that is Marvel-wonder!

"Boy wonder, my aaaass! I'm Samuel L. Jackson, motherf***er! Not a sidekiiiiiick! Now can someone tell me why my eye is missing just like daddy, the REAL Nick Fury that looks like David Hasselhoff?! Just don't send me where the Raptors are... Now WHERE is my super-suit and lightsaber?!"
-Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury