Thursday, June 12, 2008

Iron Man

Written by:
Mark Fergus
Hawk Ostby

Directed by:
Jon Favreau

Made in:
USA in 2008

Actors:
Robert Downey Jr. ... Tony Stark / Iron Man
Terrence Howard ... Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes
Jeff Bridges ... Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger
Gwyneth Paltrow ... Pepper Potts
Leslie Bibb ... Christine Everhart
Shaun Toub ... Yinsen
Faran Tahir ... Raza
Sayed Badreya ... Abu Bakaar

Plot:
Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Stane from misusing his research. IMDB

Review:
What a movie!

I was very sceptical going into it.
But I absolutely loved it! Completely blew me away. Forget Batman and Superman, Iron Man is the ultimate hero.

Dialogue is fantastic. The movie is witty and funny.
And who can't love a sarcastic, billionaire superhero??

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