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by Matt Makepeace
Iron Man is the newest in an already long line of Marvel superheroes given the big screen treatment and, surprisingly, does the comic justice while also bringing in clueless newcomers without alienating them. A lot of this accessibility is brought forth by the man starring as billionaire playboy Tony Stark – the suave, sarcastic, and slightly neurotic Robert Downey Jr. If you had told me five years ago that Downey Jr. would one day play a very convincing and likeable superhero, I would have laughed in your face. However, the man does just that in Iron Man, playing Tony Stark with a real human glow that makes his dramatic character transition from a womanizing and boozing power player to a self-sacrificing idealist believable and understandable...
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