Marvel Studios (“Spider-Man 2”) bring us yet another exciting adventure in the form of a metallic suit wearing billionaire’s adventure in “Iron Man”.
In “Iron Man”, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr. “Sherlock Holmes”) is the ultimate billionaire playboy and the chairman of a weapons building corporation. When in Afghanistan as part of a visit to the U.S army, who he has supplied with wondrous weapons, he finds himself being kidnapped and is forced to build a weapon for the bad guys but instead Stark designs a metallic suit to help him combat these evil forces and escape his captors. Back home he begins to perfect the design thus becoming Iron Man. He then discovers that his associate (Jeff Bridges “Tron”) is giving weapons to the bad guys so Tony must don his suit to combat everything he’s ever done as his new enemy uses all of the company’s weapons for evil.
Tony Stark is played well by Robert Downey Jr. as he captures both the playboy antics and the suffering Stark goes through. Jeff Bridges is an interesting choice for a villain. Terrence Howard (“Crash”) is relatively good as Tony’s old friend Rhodey. Gwyneth Paltrow (“Se7en”) is unmemorable as Tony Stark’s assistant Pepper.
“Iron Man” is a smart superhero movie. The action scenes are really well done and are both explosive and amusing. The cast for the most part was good. “Iron Man” is filled with humorous and just generally over the top moments but my personal favourite is when he outflies U.S aircrafts after he’s been taking down terrorists. If you enjoyed “Spider-Man 2” or “X2” then you won’t want to miss one minute of the exciting and funny “Iron Man” as you’ll laugh… hard and be immersed in its silly but enjoyable surroundings so I say this is definitely one to pick up.