It’s a good movie. Robt Downey was solid, if a little more scatter-brained than usual. The Hammer guy was a two-dimensional buffoon. Mickey Rourke was a satisfyingly twisted villain. Didn’t care much for the feminazi PC SHIELD girl (Scarlett Johannson) and Gwyneth’s doe-eyed smugness is getting old. But all in all, a low-cerebral-demand way to spend a couple of hours.
Johannson’s character (Black Widow/ Natalia Romonov) has been in the Marvel Universe almost as long as Iron Man. Though for this movie they “skipped ahead” to her being a good guy in skin tight clothes working for SHIELD. She started as a Soviet spy trying to steal the Iron Man tech.