Iron Man Reviewed (It Totally Didn’t Suck)
I’ll kick this review off by stating that I never followed the Iron Man comics. I watched the cartoons as a kid, but in those days my comic book reading consisted primarily of anything with a sexy lady on the cover, or lots of gratuitous violence within the pages. The only Iron Man stuff I’m really familiar with is some old Avengers stories and crossover stuff like Civil War.
That being said, Iron Man rocked my freaking face. With minimal knowledge of the Tony Starks back story I was able to thoroughly enjoy the film. Robert Downey Jr. is my 2nd favorite actor of all time (Samuel L. Jackson takes the #1 spot) and took on the role of Tony Starks rather well. If you don’t know the story, hit the jump for a quick synopsis.
Tony Starks is a weapons dealer. He’s selling some new weaponry to the U.S. military, and while giving a demonstration over seas, he’s kidnapped by a terrorist organization. Ironically, the terrorists are fully-armed with weapons made by Starks Industries.
Dun dun dunnn….
The terrorists demand that Tony makes them some bad-ass weaponry, but he’d rather make an robot suit instead. Who wouldn’t, right? The first suit is pretty bootleg, but Starks uses it to escape his prison and he makes it back to the states so that he can reflect.
He decides that selling weapons is wrong… and decides to perfect his robot/suit/killing machine… thing. Makes sense, sorta’. So, once the suit’s complete, he flies all the way back to the same 3rd world country where he was being held hostage to serve some justice-y revenge. Or just ice, with some revenge on the side. Or not.
I wonder how long that flight from California to DurkaDurkishtan took, because it was only like 2 minutes with movie magic.
Then some stuff happens, and Samuel L. Jackson (my favorite actor, remember?) shows up after the credits as Nick Fury. Fucking bad-ass!!! Two words: Avengers initiative.
Another hint towards a potential sequel was a scene where Terrence Howard’s character, Jim Rhodes, is admiring the Mark II armor (the all-gray armor) and says something like, “maybe next time”, so we can be pretty sure that War Machine will be in the sequel.
All in all, you should probably see this movie. The action rules, the acting rules, and Gwyneth Paltrow looks hot in slinky little secretary clothes. And seriously, stick around after the credits.
I caught the Thursday Night 8pm showing, and I loved it. Not to nit-pick, but Rhodes character is War Machine, not Warhawk.
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Good lookin’ out. I must’ve been thinking of PS1 games with awesome cutscenes.
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I prollly be watching it later this month. For now it’s all GTA IV. Nice review btw
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Thanks.
Not to derail the comments, but what’d you get GTA for? PS3 or 360? I got it for 360 and haven’t played online yet.
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got mine for ps3, they didnt had any 360 left when i bought it. hehe
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I caught it on Thursday and it owned and i missed the after the credits scene but wathc it last night and i cant freaking wait to the next one rumor has it that stark shows up in the hulk movie. but the nice thing is the the avengers initiave it totally opens up for some captain america action in the future and its about time the do a new cap movie cause the old one in its glory of 1990 still kinda bad but in a good way
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