Iron Man Review by Shale May 2, 2008 What can I say? Go see this movie! You know who you are and you don't need a review because you were going to see this movie anyhow (if you haven't already). For those select people, you won't be disappointed. For the rest of you, here's my attempt at a review, but first let me say that 98% of reviewers on Rottentomatoes give this movie good ratings as well as the local reviewers in Miami. This is another Marvel comic figure flying onto the big screen and tho it has plenty of CGI to excite you, it also has a story and is well paced, letting you savor the unfolding of Iron Man. Iron Man in Flight Perhaps part of this movie's appeal is that Robert Downey Jr. does an excellent performance as Tony Stark, the hedonistic, womanizing, boozing, ultra-rich industrialist weapons maker, who (almost biographically) discovers the right path in life after near destruction by his own devices. Oh, the story. Tony Stark, (Downey) the genius weapons maker, after unveiling the newest advance in killing war machine, is captured by bad guys in Afghanistan. He is injured in the attack and has to lug around a car battery that powers a magnet that keeps his heart from being destroyed. The terrorists are forcing him to duplicate the newest weapon for them, but he not only makes a portable generator to keep his heart going, but he surreptitiously fabricates an iron suit with firepower and rockets to escape. Robert Downey Jr. lookin' buff while making the prototype iron man When Tony Stark gets back home after seeing the harm his weapons have caused in the wrong hands, he changes the course of Stark Industries and stops making weapons, which does not go well with his evil business partner Obadiah Sane (a skinhead Jeff Bridges - you know he's evil). Stark starts putting together the more refined Iron Man in his Malibu Mansion, determined to use it for good. Gwyneth Paltrow is Pepper Potts, Stark's loyal Girl Friday who keeps order in the genius' life. She has always been the facilitator in the background but after his return he sees her as a person of trust that he needs and one that he actually has feelings for. Pepper Potts and Tony Stark Well, not to give too much away, but Iron Man goes back to Afghanistan to kick some bad guy ass, then gets into a big Transformers style battle with Obadiah's ripoff ironman. Tony Stark and Iron Man with a few dents As you can tell I really liked this movie. OK, a little confession. I'm in love with Robert Downey Jr. and am really glad to see him get his act together and back in movies. He held this flick together and he's more than a pretty face - he can actually act and has a comedic gift. His interactions with his industrial bots is kinda cute as well as his learning curve moments with the Iron Man suit. Of course it gets a 4 DVD rating. Shale's movie rating scale: 0 DVD No I would not waste my money or time seeing this movie again. 1 DVD I would get this DVD for $5 or $7 2 DVD I would get this DVD for $10 3 DVD I would get this DVD for $15 4 DVD I would get this DVD for $25 as soon as it was released.
Now I'm seriously considering going to see this. Tony Stark is pretty much the same as real life Robert Downey Jr. too, so I bet he's great fun to watch in this role. Good review, and nice touch with the step by step pictures. I'd say more, but I'm gonna go see it now!
It was a fun movie. Plus it co-starred the eyes of Terrance Howard. That's all you have to say and I'm there! Even better Gwyneth Paltrow's eyes were great too! She looked better than I've ever seen her. The backless dress was "missing something" from the front though.
A very entertaining movie. It felt too short, even being over 2 hours. I guess that's because they never let things sit in one place too long, not a bad thing. A really fun movie. and if you stay after the credits you get a great surprise...
That was an OK MOVIE, had a good time watching it which I would put it way above the crappy X-MEN-ELEKTRA-DAREDEVIL-GHOSTRIDER-FANTASTIC 4... reunited (Blade was cool) Laughed at every punchline RDJ delivered and was thrilled to see IRON MAN fly into the air. The action and dark mood in the cave was the most interesting bit in the film where he gets to build the MARK I armor and blast the TELLY Buns !! The rest of it we only get to see TONY STARK, TONY STARK, TONY STARK and TONY STARK. Not enough of IRON MAN and when we see him it's only a test flight. I had the impression that there was more action in the beginning then at the end? RDJ was so good cracking jokes that I forgot the movie was about IRON MAN. In fact it covered some of the flaws the movie had. His character was too goofy compared to the comic book character. Even while wearing the suit he cracks up jokes, this is something only SPIDERMAN does during action, love the bit where he is silent and we only get to see the machine in action. JB was pretty good as STANE, brilliant. I wonder how he can master the controls of the IRON MONGER in a matter of seconds? And why he let Pepper get away so easily with the info on his hard drive? IRON MONGER died in a very cheap way and the ending isn't spectacular at all. Stane seemed to be more interesting then his robotic Counterpart. PEPPER was a bit cardboard, lucky she gets to save IRON MAN? Uh? IRON MAN should be the one saving Pepper and smash IRON MONGER into a pulp with a spectacular finale but instead Pepper is the one saving IM ? RHODEY's favorite moment is where he looks at the other armor, teasing the crowd as we know he will be WAR MACHINE. His character looked more like an army bureaucrat wearing fake medals then a real soldier, the writers should have included a scene where he pilots the plane or a chopper or gun down a few terrorist while Tony got injured. HAPPY was OK, just a cameo. NICK FURY, geez , why can't we get a proper Jim Steranko's version instead of SHAFT ? Samuel L Jackson to me, should be playing DEATHLOCK on screen. He looks the part. IRON MAN's armor is cool, Adi Granov's design and STAN WINSTON's magic makes the IRON MAN scenes exciting. But his postures with the hands, makes him look like a ballet Dancer in armor, I hope he'll fly like Superman in the sequel with the knuckles at the front? The village scene was too fast? Only one tank. Not enough bad guys in the film. Should have 10 times the amount of bad guys then a CHUCK NORRIS, STALLONE, BRUCE WILLIS or SHWARZENEGER film from the 80's. He is made of titanium alloy but his helmet was crushed easily by IRON MONGER, a bit too easy. The MARK I armor was really impressive, seeing it in action. I'd like to know how Tony can survive such a fall in both armor? The mini airbags in the suit must be really impressive. I was also very influenced by the hype surrounding the show and the videogame footage where IM grabs the missiles in the air. Was expecting much much more action actually and ended up with a tiny amount only. ===================================== Compared to cheaper and robot genre movies like • Hardware • Robocop 1 • Robocop 2 (25 Million $ and 5 times more action then IRON MAN) • Robot Jox • Moontrap • Gunhed • Crash and Burn • Invader and other SCI-FI Flicks: • STARGATE • INDEPENDENCE DAY • STAR WARS • MATRIX REVOLUTIONS Also based on the budget for IRON MAN: 186 Millions + 50 Millions $ Promotion. I'd give IRON MAN a 6.5 / 10. Jon Favreau still delivered the goods and did a good job adapting IRON MAN for the general public. He turned it into a great comedy which is more Hollywood then Marvel.
Just watched this one for the first time last night. While i agree with DAVID that there wasn't as much action as i was expecting........i still thoroughly(sp?) enjoyed it! I would say i am on the same track as Shale on this one.......really enjoyable movie, imo!
Since this post was bumped, let me add something not mentioned in my first review. I liked this movie so much I saw it again in theatre within a week. And, true to my DVD Rating, I just got the DVD as soon as it came out for $25. Actually it was a 2-disc set with lots of features and I really enjoyed all the deleted scenes and would like to see them put them into a special video. (Yeah, I dislike movies over two hours, but not videos where I can pause and take a leak now and then) So, I enjoyed seeing this movie again for the third time! Waitin' for the sequel.
I pre-ordered the DVD from Amazon and while I enjoyed it thoroughly, I’m still glad I waited 5 months until it came out on DVD Hotwater
Hi, Shale. Great Review. I have seen the movie and I am asking for more. I hope the sequel will come out pretty soon. Is it already in the making?
