The Big Life Ironman Review!
Ironman. As far as comicbook characters go, he’s not one on top of my list, though this being Marvel Studios’ first live-action movie, it’s looking good for them.
What else can I say about it? From the looks of things, it IS the first big hit of the summer. Casting Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark is an inspired choice, and, well, Terrence Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow also fit in their roles as Jim Rhodes and Pepper Potts, respectively.
The movie starts out with Tony Stark living the futurist/industrialist frivolous lifestyle, never having regard for anyone but his self interests. While doing a demo for the United States army, he is abducted by a terrorist faction who wish to use his technology to take over the world. In captivity, he meets Yinsen, a brilliant scientist who manages to save his life from shrapnels that are making their way to Stark’s heart.
Forced to make a missile that would guarantee the terrorists’ success, he and Yinsen start work on their way out — the Ironman Mark I suit. (This all pretty much comes direct from the first Ironman story, just set in modern times.)
Seeing his life’s work being used as a leverage for modern wars, Stark spends the rest of the movie redeeming himself by becoming Ironman, and, well, keeping up with the sexual tension between him and Ms. Potts. Laughs, action and Stark’s arrogance makes for an interesting superhero movie. Go see it!
By the end of the movie though, I had this weird hankering for some Burger King.
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