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Iron Man (2008)
PostedMay 2, 2008
MutieFreak
from Los Angeles, CA
At last a movie that answers one of those timeless questions of mankind: What do you do if you're almost killed by a weapon you helped design and are being held prisoner by mercenaries? You enlist the aid of the doctor that saved your life and build a suit of powered armor out of the weapons your captors want you to use to build them the ultimate weapon system.
Or at least that's the plan that Tony Stark (Downey Jr.) comes up with. Tony is the kind of millionaire playboy that I imagine Bruce Wayne would be if the phrase "My parents are dead!" wasn't stuck on an infinite loop in the back of Bruce's head. He frequently is seen with a drink in hand, women at his beck and call, and blowing off appointments with this government contacts to finish working on one of the cars in his personal collection. But three months in a cave with a doctor that describes the effects of Stark's weapons on the people of his innocent village (as well as on Tony) has a way of changing a man's mind. After blasting his way to freedom, Tony doesn't want to design weapons anymore. He goes home and seems to set to work trying to solve the traffic problems of every major city in the world by designing what I would guess to be a 20 billion dollar personal flight suit. It's only after he's reminded that the weapons he has already built and designed that are still out in the world and being used by the bad guys that Stark realizes what everyone that's seen his flight suit already knows: that with minimal modification, he can be a one man army.
Over all, I enjoyed this movie. It's good, but it probably could have been better. When the movie ended, I didn't have the same feeling I had when I walked out of the theater at the end of a film in the X-Men or Spider-man film franchises. Maybe that's because I'm a fan of those series of comics, while I've never really followed any Iron Man stories in the past. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I had not seen any of the advertising for this film. While the trailers don't give everything away, you've probably seen a large chunk of the best parts of the action sequences. There was a very nice sense of humor in the film (intentionally; not like Daredevil, which I'm still convinced is a fantastic comedy that the director had no intention of making as a comedy). There were several scenes that were played just for laughs, which are not often done in these kinds of movies.
WARNING: This film contains a post credits scene. Stay until the end of the credits for a Marvel Universe Cameo.
See it: If the trailers have looked good to you, I think you'll enjoy yourself. I myself probably will only go to see this movie again if I'm invited to go see it by a group of my friends.
See it on: I can't think of anything that you would lose by waiting to see this on broadcast television.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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