Robert Downey Jrs 10 Best Movies (Not In The MCU) According To Rotten Tomatoes

Robert Downey Jr.’s 10 Best Movies (Not In The MCU), According To Rotten Tomatoes

Today, Robert Downey Jr. is known for his portrayal of Marvel’s Iron Man, but he’s been in plenty of great movies outside of the Marvel universe.

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Since first appearing in his father’s film Pound in 1970, Robert Downey Jr. has gone through many ups and downs to become what he is today, one of the most respected and highly paid actors in the world. The 80s and 90s era saw him star in some hits like Chaplin and U.S. Marshals, even appearing on Saturday Night Live for a short while for which he was named the worst SNL member ever by Rolling Stone. The drug abuse troubles he got mired in were enough to end the acting career of even the most prestigious of performers, but he bounced back strong, and, ever since the first Iron Man film, he has never looked back.

The MCU is one of the biggest media franchises in the world right now, and it wouldn’t be too much of an exaggeration to say it owes much of its success to RDJ. He’s so good at being Tony Stark that it’s difficult to see him as anything but, but the fact remains that he has done tons of other films as well, some of which have been mentioned below.

10 Bowfinger (1999) – 81%

Small-time movie producer Bobby Bowfinger dreams of directing his own movie someday, but he doesn’t have the access to resources to accomplish such a feat. When the actor that he wants to cast in the film denies his offer, he does what no reasonable man would—he starts shooting the film around the actor without his acknowledgment.

Eddie Murphy has shown his skills in playing multiple characters in the same film many times over, such as in Coming to America and The Nutty Professor series, and he brings that same talent to Bowfinger, as well.

9 Tropic Thunder (2008) – 82%

Despite the highly controversial use of blackface in 2008’s Tropic Thunder, the film is remembered as an iconic satirical hit, and it even earned Downey an Oscar nod. The actor himself stated that he felt the role was a jab at the “self-involved hypocrisy” of Hollywood types.

Either way, the Siller-lead comedy is held in acclaim, even today, and, with an 82 on Rotten Tomatoes, it remains one of Robert Downy Jr.’s best movies outside of the MCU.

8 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) – 86%

Buddy cop movies are what Shane Black is famous for, having created the classic Lethal Weapon series starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. He also directed Iron Man 3, but Kiss Kiss Bang Bang marks the first time he and RDJ collaborated on a movie.

Sharing incredible on-screen chemistry, Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer play a fake actor and a private investigator in this buddy comedy who get tangled up in a murder investigation that they aren’t quite competent enough to solve.

7 Back To School (1986) – 86%

The 80s and 90s were a time for some rather bizarre and yet somewhat creative movies such as Junior, where Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a pregnant man. Back to School isn’t nearly on that level of absurdity, but there is something about a film based on the premise of an old man enrolling into a college that screams 90s comedy.

Comedy actor Rodney Dangerfield plays Thornton Melon, a rich businessman who bribes his way into gaining admission in his son’s college so that he can support him but instead gets into all kinds of other misadventures.

6 Chef (2014) – 87%

Jon Favreau wrote, directed, and co-produced this food-related—as insinuated by the title—comedy-drama where he plays a chef who leaves his job at a restaurant to start his own food truck business with his son. RDJ’s role in the film is lacking in screen time and is more of a cameo, but he does the vital job of supplying Favreau’s character with the food truck that the plot revolves around.

Moreover, Favreau’s love for food goes beyond the movie in the form of a spin-off Netflix series The Chef Show.

5 Zodiac (2007) – 89%

Director David Fincher’s thrillers are considered to be some of the greatest that the genre has to offer, and Zodiac is certainly up there as one of the best true-crime films ever made. With an ensemble cast of Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr.—all of whom would eventually go on to play big parts in the MCU—it centers around the real-life case of the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who operated in the late 1960s. Downey plays one of the many people looking for the killer, a task they all ultimately fail at as he has not been caught to this day.

4 Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) – 93%

Directed by and starring George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck is a dramatization of the events that took place involving journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. At a time of social instability in the country, Senator McCarthy led various anti-communist campaigns, the truth behind which was exposed by Murrow and his team through the documentary series See It Now. Joined by Clooney and Jeff Daniels, RDJ plays the part of one of the people involved in the historical case.

3 Richard III (1995) – 94%

William Shakespeare’s legendary plays have inspired the creation of a thousand other stories and adaptations, and Richard III ranks among one of the best. This modern-day retelling takes the plot to mid-1900s England instead of the original time period of the play, which is set in the 1400s.

RDJ’s character in the film is Earl Rivers, one of the numerous historical figures present in the story who is better known historically as Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, and is murdered by King Richard on his quest for power and the throne.

2 True Believer (1989) – 95%

In one of the earliest roles of his career, RDJ plays Roger Baron, a young law school graduate who works on a murder case with an experienced lawyer Eddie Dodd. Dodd used to do noble work once upon a time, but he now is a man past his prime who just defends criminals for the money.

After taking the case of a Korean man imprisoned on a murder charge, he comes to believe that the man is actually innocent of the crime he is suspected of and works with Baron to uncover deep-running conspiracies within the authorities.

1 Short Cuts (1993) – 95%

Based on a series of short stories written by author Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows a multitude of characters from various stages of life and how their day-to-day lives intersect with each other.

Director Robert Altman, one of the greatest of his generation and a seven-time Oscar nominee, is known for the unique humor and style of his films, something clearly present in Short Cuts as well. The film’s huge cast of characters, played by the likes of Downey, Julianne Moore, and Frances McDormand, is part of its style of storytelling.

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