This is not a super hero movie. What defines a super hero anyway? For me, it is someone who has powers that are god-given, or someone who is not human(Superman, X men), or someone who acquires them as a result of an accident ( Spiderman, Fantastic 4).
In this movie, Robert Downey Jr uses his intelligence, skill and technical wizardry to build a suit to help him toe scape from his villainous Afghani captors. Not to save the world. But to get his as* out of a smelly cave.
It is then another matter, that he improves upon the prototype design to build a new super suit, hundreds of times more powerful. But only once does he use it for the benefit of mankind. But hey... this is only Iron Man 1 that we are talking about. Rest assured, there will be Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3 to follow.
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The special effects are stunning, but the climax suit vs suit fight reminds you heavily of Transformers. What makes this movie different , is the crisp dialogues, and the dead pan demanour of Robert Downey Jr.
The balding villain is gratefully done away with in the end. The sequel will definitely needs someone more spiffy to fill in the bad guys shoes.
All in all, a good time pass movie, nothing path breaking. Not a patch on X men, is actually what I mean .
Rating : 2.5 stars
1 comment:
Hi Ro, that is complicated stuff for me understand..and i am away from this kind of fiction and the last person on the face of this planet to have, leave alone expertise..even an opinion about these..still... cant help it your blog gives me great opprtunity to talk, my birthright:-)
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