Iron Man

The Story

This is the story of Tony Stark played by Robert Downey Jnr, a genius with electronics who creates military weapons for his company Stark Industries. He is a playboy who likes to party and has lots of women seeking his attention, he has no qualms about what he does for a living and is ignorant to what his weapons do.

That is until while showcasing one of his weapons he is captured by the enemy and kept as prisoner until he agrees to make weapons for them. He wakes up in captivity with shrapnel in his chest threatening to pierce his heart and another prisoner Ho Yinsen, a physicist makes a magnetic chest plate to keep the shrapnel from reaching Stark’s heart.

While in captivity and in secret stark builds himself a flying suit made out of iron to escape his captors and then flies away after shooting up a load of soldiers to make his way out of the compound. When finally back in America he has a change of heart and decides to use his company to do some good with it which the media think is probably a joke or Stark has gone stark raving mad.

He develops a new suit of armour with help from some artificailly intelligent robots after the one he made in captivity falls apart via his escape. Now armed and ready he flies off to save some civilians from an attack on them from a enemy force carrying Stark weaponry and in doing so gets spotted by the American army who try to take Stark down flying around in his iron suit.

Cue a subplot of a friend of Stark’s played by Jeff Bridges who is not happy with his new epiphany of life and so contradicts everything in which Stark now believes in and becomes a traitor to his friend. Also a developing love interest between Stark and his secretary played by Gwyneth Paltrow occurs which brings in a bit of normality to Stark’s life.

What I liked about the movie

Since Batman Begins comic book adaptions have prospered to make their character creations more real and it is visible to see that the director and writer of this film have taken to the same path. The story isn’t just mainly action oriented and it develops Stark’s character from playboy to hero which I really enjoyed.
The love interest doesn’t over boil the movie and the story goes at a steady pace which was nice.

I had never really heard of Iron Man before watching the movie but it was as good as any of the other comic book adaptions that I had seen.

What I didn’t like

The film I feel didn’t have enough action in it and some children watching it could become bored with the movie waiting to see their Ironed hero battling the enemy and some of the effects while they were very cool seemed a bit clean but wasn’t enough to spoil the film for me and these are just minor quips.

Would i recommend this

Yes to anyone that likes comic books or the adapted movies would enjoy this film and equally anyone that loves action movies should indeed give this a watch and you won’t be disappointed.

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