‘Iron Man’ - directed by Jon Favreau
Rating: ***.5/*****
This is the true essence of retrospective entry, having watched this movie on the unofficial last day of my HO posting. Haha… the whole gang of us except S and T went for our first ever HO-outing followed by a sumptuous dinner at the Brazilian Churrascaria in the evening. Only poor T had to go start work at the west-end hospital. Haha…
Ok, ‘Iron Man’ is one in a league of many action movies derived from comics… Such as Fantastic 4… It was quite entertaining and I really enjoyed seeing all those high end gadgets and that scruffy lonely soul of Tony Stark (I think this surname is especially cool) played by Robert Downey Jr. Also think the name Pepper Potts is really cute and why on earth is Gwyneth Paltrow so skinny?! It’s a bit scary actually.
I wish I had one of those suits. It’s like my childhood dream to fly fly fly freeee… Have always had such dreams of free flight. *dreamy look*
Synopsis
Tony Stark is a child prodigy who’s the leading man in an industry of weapons made to protect America from all threats. While en route to an award ceremony, he’s kidnapped by a group of erm terrorists and then forced to help them create his new range of missiles. Instead he uses all those spare parts and such and makes a robot out of himself.
Later when he returns, Start decides that for all he knows, his weapons were being used to wage war against peace and decided to clamp down on weapons sales. He invests all his effort into perfecting the ‘Iron Man’. His dad’s good friend is actually secretly selling their weapons to those terrorists, and all this culminates into a war between two robots basically…
There’s loads of action, comedy with a bare sprinkling of romance…
