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Entertaining but falls apart a bit at the end
PostedJune 1, 2008
hyeseungandtoby
from New York NY
Overall: Good super-hero action film. Worth seeing in theaters. Not perfect with heavy development of the Stark character at the expense of making other characters multidimensional. Rushed ending
The details: Robert Downey Jr is a good fit for Stark and Terrence Howard does a good job as the straight man friend. Jeff Bridges is hard to make into a bad guy, but his weird door-in-the-floor chia pet facial hair molds well into an evil doer/power monger face elongating look. Gwyneth Paltrow acts well as the Moneypenny like Pepper -- we feel though that a stronger woman counterpart would have suited the all powerful Stark. The fundamental problem with Iron Man is that Stark is so overpowering and overdeveloped (he is really not that complicated) that we don't get to know the other characters. In particular, the bad guys are one dimensional (evil industry and power hungry terrorist), so Iron Man does not benefit from an interest raking nemesis like Magneto in the X-Men series. Finally, the end seems a bit slapped together for the 2 hr movie. This probably reflects the fact that the bad guys were just bad and all there was to do was kill them -- even still there seemed to be questions about the action (e.g., where did the bad guy get a precision instrument to extract Stark's power supply if his engineers could not start to build one; why was Iron Man spared in the final explosion and not the bad guy?).
The details: Robert Downey Jr is a good fit for Stark and Terrence Howard does a good job as the straight man friend. Jeff Bridges is hard to make into a bad guy, but his weird door-in-the-floor chia pet facial hair molds well into an evil doer/power monger face elongating look. Gwyneth Paltrow acts well as the Moneypenny like Pepper -- we feel though that a stronger woman counterpart would have suited the all powerful Stark. The fundamental problem with Iron Man is that Stark is so overpowering and overdeveloped (he is really not that complicated) that we don't get to know the other characters. In particular, the bad guys are one dimensional (evil industry and power hungry terrorist), so Iron Man does not benefit from an interest raking nemesis like Magneto in the X-Men series. Finally, the end seems a bit slapped together for the 2 hr movie. This probably reflects the fact that the bad guys were just bad and all there was to do was kill them -- even still there seemed to be questions about the action (e.g., where did the bad guy get a precision instrument to extract Stark's power supply if his engineers could not start to build one; why was Iron Man spared in the final explosion and not the bad guy?).
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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