Was I ever surprised. On the whole I must say it was a great movie. Not once was I bored, and it wasn't a generic "ten minutes of intro to the new superhero and now two hours of fighting." There was a lot of build up during the whole movie, with Mr. Stark building the suit (well, suits, as he had to build a crappy one to escape the "bad guys" in Afghanistan). If there was any major criticism it was that there was still the "look at the bad guys that aren't American, they are EVIL!" idea all over the place, but being that this is a superhero movie, I can overlook it.

I think Marvel has made up for the train wreck that was Spider-Man 3, and hopefully they can continue with this quality.