Ryan McKern

Iron Man is an excel­lent comic book movie (which makes it a pretty good movie over­all). It feels very much like a faith­ful attempt to com­press 20 years of sto­ry­lines (the ori­gin, the Armor Wars, Pep­per Potts, and the ces­sa­tion of arma­ments man­u­fac­tur­ing by Star Indus­tries) into a sin­gle sto­ry­line with a strong influ­ence from the Ulti­mate Mar­vel uni­verse. …