Retrospective Hype Review: Iron Man
April 7th 2010 04:28
So prior to the imminent release of Iron Man 2 I thought I'd reflect back on the original and watch it again; you know, just to keep the hype in the blood, the iron in the man...the man and the iron..I'm not sure what I'm talking about anymore, but let's continue on anyway.
Iron Man follows the story based off the original comics and cartoons, where a genius weapons developer named Tony Stark (played out by the always cool Robert Downey Jr) is kidnapped by terrorists and forced to work on weapons for them. While being kidnapped, he is critically wounded; shrapnel from explosions pierce through his chest and should be entering his heart valves any time soon. 'Should'. With astonishing luck (which I call 'movie' luck), another scientist who was captured (a 'lesser' scientist though) builds a strange circular device and implants it into Stark's chest, and what it does is it magnetises and keeps the shrapnel from killing Stark. What a strange way to save a life.
So after the life saving and explaining on how the device works, Stark begins building away..but not towards a weapon for terrorists. He builds a suit, powered by the chest piece he now has, and manages to escape with it, but loses his new scientist friend in the process. After this, he begins developing the Iron Man suit we know and love today, and with it comes along new and powerful enemies who attempt to take that power for their own. Cue the typical rule of three process of film, and you're suddenly at the end of the film already.
But see, that's a good thing. Because you don't even realise how long the movie is, which is close to 2 hours. It's just that immersive, entertaining and funny that you barely notice. Iron Man is freaking fantastic. Downey plays the role of Stark very well and manages to keep the viewer consistently entertained by his zaney charms and witty lines. Pacing is consistent throughout the entire film; the beginning and watching the Iron Man suit come to life is awesome, and this level of awesome doesn't lower itself anywhere throughout the rest of the film.
It's just a really, really well done comic-based movie. Iron Man has aged over the past 2 years, but it's aged very well, as it's still a greatly entertaining film that's memorable, well presented and well told. To me, it's also one of the comic book adaptations that certainly sets the standard, and shows how adaptations SHOULD be made. X-men 3, you could've learnt a whole lot if your mutant powers were able to see into the future.
A great film that definitely puts some lofty expectations on the sequel's shoulders. Let's just hope it manages to exceed them, eh?
5/5
Iron Man follows the story based off the original comics and cartoons, where a genius weapons developer named Tony Stark (played out by the always cool Robert Downey Jr) is kidnapped by terrorists and forced to work on weapons for them. While being kidnapped, he is critically wounded; shrapnel from explosions pierce through his chest and should be entering his heart valves any time soon. 'Should'. With astonishing luck (which I call 'movie' luck), another scientist who was captured (a 'lesser' scientist though) builds a strange circular device and implants it into Stark's chest, and what it does is it magnetises and keeps the shrapnel from killing Stark. What a strange way to save a life.
So after the life saving and explaining on how the device works, Stark begins building away..but not towards a weapon for terrorists. He builds a suit, powered by the chest piece he now has, and manages to escape with it, but loses his new scientist friend in the process. After this, he begins developing the Iron Man suit we know and love today, and with it comes along new and powerful enemies who attempt to take that power for their own. Cue the typical rule of three process of film, and you're suddenly at the end of the film already.
But see, that's a good thing. Because you don't even realise how long the movie is, which is close to 2 hours. It's just that immersive, entertaining and funny that you barely notice. Iron Man is freaking fantastic. Downey plays the role of Stark very well and manages to keep the viewer consistently entertained by his zaney charms and witty lines. Pacing is consistent throughout the entire film; the beginning and watching the Iron Man suit come to life is awesome, and this level of awesome doesn't lower itself anywhere throughout the rest of the film.
It's just a really, really well done comic-based movie. Iron Man has aged over the past 2 years, but it's aged very well, as it's still a greatly entertaining film that's memorable, well presented and well told. To me, it's also one of the comic book adaptations that certainly sets the standard, and shows how adaptations SHOULD be made. X-men 3, you could've learnt a whole lot if your mutant powers were able to see into the future.
A great film that definitely puts some lofty expectations on the sequel's shoulders. Let's just hope it manages to exceed them, eh?
5/5
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