Overview
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
The funny thing about me and superhero movies is that I have to pysche myself up to watch them. I’m not quite sure why that is. My guess is that the story tends to suffer at the expense of CGI and I always prefer the former to the latter. Anyway, I thought I would give this a chance because of the 93% favorable ratings at rottentomatoes.com and it stars Robert Downey Jr. Why couldn’t this guy have stayed off of the drugs in his 30’s? I think he might be the best actor of our time. For this genre the story was about as good as any that I have seen. The final battle scene (I’m not giving anything away here – after all, there is ALWAYS a final battle scene) was a bit of a disappointment and you can see a sequel coming but overall the movie was as good as any others in this genre.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Iron Man
Movie title: Iron Man
Movie description: After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Date published: 2008-10-03
Director(s): Jon Favreau
Actor(s): Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir, Leslie Bibb, Clark Gregg, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau, Will Lyman, Samuel L. Jackson, Stan Lee, Tom Morello, Jim Cramer, Sayed Badreya, Bill Smitrovich, Peter Billingsley, Tim Guinee, Marco Khan, Daston Kalili, Ido Ezra, Kevin Foster, Garret Noël, Eileen Weisinger, Ahmed Ahmed, Fahim Fazli, Gerard Sanders, Tim Rigby, Russell Richardson, Nazanin Boniadi, Thomas Craig Plumer, Robert Berkman, Stacy Stas, Lauren Scyphers, Frank Nyi, Marvin Jordan, Donna Evans, Reid Harper, Summer Kylie Remington, Ava Rose Williams, Vladimir Kubr, Callie Croughwell, Javan Tahir, Sahar Bibiyan, Patrick O'Connell, Adam Harrington, Meera Simhan, Ben Newmark, Ricki Lander, Jeannine Kaspar, Sarah Cahill, Justin Rex, Zorianna Kit, Lana Kinnear, Nicole Lindeblad, Masha Lund, Gabrielle Tuite, Tim Griffin, Joshua Harto, Micah A. Hauptman, James Bethea, Jeffrey Ashkin, Russell Bobbitt, Vianessa Castaños, Mike Cochrane, Crystal Marie Denha, Mellany Gandara, Halla, Rodrick Hersh, Kristin J. Hooper, Chris Jalandoni, Stephen Janousek, Laura Liguori, Flavia Manes Rossi, Anthony Martins, Robert McMurrer, James M. Myers, America Olivo, Sylvette Ortiz, Brett Padelford, Ajani Perkins, Chris Reid, Toi Rose, George F. Watson, David Zyler, Nick W. Nicholson, Elijah Samuel Quesada
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
My Review
The funny thing about me and superhero movies is that I have to pysche myself up to watch them. I’m not quite sure why that is. My guess is that the story tends to suffer at the expense of CGI and I always prefer the former to the latter. Anyway, I thought I would give this a chance because of the 93% favorable ratings at rottentomatoes.com and it stars Robert Downey Jr. Why couldn’t this guy have stayed off of the drugs in his 30’s? I think he might be the best actor of our time. For this genre the story was about as good as any that I have seen. The final battle scene (I’m not giving anything away here – after all, there is ALWAYS a final battle scene) was a bit of a disappointment and you can see a sequel coming but overall the movie was as good as any others in this genre.
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My Review - 8.5/10
8.5/10