Iron Man, directed by Jon Favreau, and staring the wonderful Robert Downey Jr, is a movie which quite frankly, and i hate to start off my first ever review on this site in such a nice tone, is an excellent film.
You see, being a film student at a university which teaches you to dissect and personally criticise the very moral essence of every film in which our dull eyes come into contact with, i get a real sense of joy when i see something truly terrible, and then get to rant my little heart out, pointing out all the crap, throwing in a few jokes, and making an overall excellent review to read.
Unfortunately, (or maybe not unfortunately if you look at it from Iron Man’s view), this film fails to fall into the above catagory is actually quite a brilliant film. I went and saw the film with my good friend Nick, who shares my same distaste in anything in the cinema world which is anything but spectacular, and we both walked away with a great love for the film, which is a very hard thing to do.
Heres the low down on the story, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is an eccentric billionaire, and he runs Stark Industries, which creates everything that goes bang and is used by the military to fight EVIL TERRORISTS in afghanistan. Now Stark is a self-indulging prick, and thats what makes the movie work. He is the typical billionaire ‘only cares about himself’ with a sense of spunk that makes you love him even more. After personally traveling to afghanistan and unveiling his new Jericho missile, which is FREAKIN AWESOME, he is captured by terrorists in the desert and taken to an exclusive cave, where the terrorists give him a bunch of bits and bobs, and tell him to build them a Jericho missile of their own.
Well fuck them, Tony says, and instead, he builds himself what could better be described as a suit of absolute DOOM. AFter creating a gigantic robot suit of arm, with built in rockets and jetpack feet, Tony preceeds to shoot up the place before high-tailing it out of there. Once he’s out, and back in america, he shuts down the weapon aspect of his buisness (due to the terrible things he saw in afghanistan) and then secretly builds his own suit of armour in his house, the new Iron Man.
Ofcourse, i will not spoil what happens next, as it gives away the main plot twist, and so i therefore vow if humanely possible, never to reveal an ending to a movie or game in one of my reviews. Onto the review aspect though.
The movie’s visual effects were quite extroadinary. If you thought transformers look real, wait till you see Iron Man hurled through a bus at full speed, and then slam into oncoming traffic. Honestly, i would of originally thought that they just BUILT a real Iron man for the film… or maybe they did? i should do some research.
As for the story itself, there are some parts that dont make sense, but they are barely noticeable due to some terrific acting by Robert Downey Jr, and some great comedy thrown in by the writers. One gag imediately comes to mind, where Tony Stark is trying out the new jetpack boots he created in his basement. He decides to try them out at only 10%, and when he hitss the ignition, he flies backwards through the air, straight int the roof, before falling down in a mess on all his computer tables, getting sprayed by a fire extinguisher held by a robotic arm who thought he was on fire….. ok so its a joke you gotta see to laugh at, its visual folks!!
Overall, i would recommend iron man to everyone. Its got fun for the kids, awesomness for teenagers and adults, hot girls for the guys, and Robert Downey Jr for the girls. hehe
