Iron Man cinema review
May 12, 2008 – 9:04 pm | by Peekay
The big screen transfers of comic-book superheroes are so varied it is pretty darn impossible to pre-judge whether one will be good or bad based on the love of the original story or character.
Sometimes, however, the original elements that made the comic-books a success manage to find a director and star who know how to handle them. Iron Man is one of the lucky ones.
Tony Stark (well played by Robert Downey Jr) is the genius kid who takes over his fathers business selling arms to the US military to help it’s “peace-keeping” work.
But when Stark is kidnapped he discovers that some of his arms are getting into the wrong hands, such as the Afghanistan warlord who holds him captive, demanding he builds a copy of Stark’s latest weaponry, the Jericho missile.
Instead Stark does an A-Team, he takes his meagre resources to build his way out – a giant mechanical suit that protects him from bullets, comes with built-in fire-thrower and the ability to (just about) fly. When he gets back home Stark changes his view on his profession and instead begins to build a better “Iron Man” suit to help him seek out and destroy his weapons that have gotten into the wrong hands. And he begins to discover who let that happen, and why, and how desperate they are to keep things going.
Director Jon Favreau, better known as an actor from films, and a series-long role in Friends, brings some serious action goodies to this picture. He balances the essential back-storys well, and keeps the momentum up. The final fight-scene is very reminiscent of Transformers territory, but it is a single lapse in an otherwise great action flick.
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