Joe liked it (and if you haven’t seen the movie, his review doesn’t have spoilers):

Stark has always been a rather complex creation - smug, indifferent and rakish - until he decides to take his Iron Man creation into the world as a force for fighting “injustice”, a fight which almost casts him as an anti-war, anti-corporate kind of liberal hippie. But he isn’t. He loves technology, but he is also seeking a balance of power. As with Spiderman and the X-Men, Marvel’s heroes are touched with an anti-authoritarian streak which makes them far more interesting than most comic heroes.

Cathy also weighs in

The comic book geeks of yesterday are today’s movie audience. Instead of being the oddballs who wore pointy ears instead of playing sports, we are being wooed by movie studios. They pull us in with the nostalgia of familiar characters, but they capture us by making the stories about our mid-life anxieties. The fuzzy line between the good guys and the bad guys, the flawed and damaged characters and the absence of easy plot resolutions all make the fictional superheroes completely real. Comic book movies are a flight of fantasy and a visit to the therapist’s couch all at the same time. The previews were unmemorable except for one. I had goosebumps during the preview for The Dark Knight. I love summer movie season.

And Mike Hammock also says he dug it but he had a couple of issues with it (Spoilers galore here if you haven’t seen it. You have been warned.)

There were, however, a couple things that bothered me about Iron Man. I know, I’m supposed to suspend my disbelief in a film like this (I mean, the guy can apparently fly without any sort of chemical propulsion source–no rockets, no jets, just little white lights), but these things still irk me (they did not bother my fellow viewers)