By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Paramount Pictures
Iron Man
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Iron Man Reviews
With so many superhero movies falling short of the mark of late I am relieved to see that Iron Man is living up to a standard laid down by X-Men (well, the first two) and Spider-Man (well, the first two).
NY Mag
Iron Man is a shapely piece of mythmaking. The director, Jon Favreau, doesn’t go in for stylized comic-book frames, at least in the first half. He gets real with it—you’d think you were watching a military thriller. After jetting to Afghanistan to demonstrate a guided missile (which launches itty-bitty guided missiles), “billionaire industrialist” and conscienceless playboy Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) gets kidnapped by insurgents, who blow up his convoy and kill his Army escort. He wakes up in a cave, where a kindly Afghan civilian (Shaun Toub) has inserted a magnet in his chest to keep the shrapnel from drifting to his vital organs. The bad guys order Stark to replicate his super-duper weapon. But are they in for a surprise!
Iron Man is more family-friendly, but it’s in the same liberal-fantasy tradition. And don’t misunderstand—I loved it. I’d so rather think about blockbusters than bunker-busters (or the Democratic primary).
Empire
Don’t misunderstand us – there’s still much to enjoy. There’s winning comedy in Stark’s suit-perfecting misadventures, involving a dash of Wile E. Coyote slapstick and some great deadpanning from Downey Jr as he teases and berates his robot-arm assistants, one of whom is a little too eager with the fire extinguisher. And the acting-powerhouse cast don’t disappoint. Jeff Bridges may be more typically pitched these days as the amiable slouch, but his Obidiah Stane is crisp, bullish and hard-edged, even if he’s the worst-kept secret-bad-guy since Palpatine. Meanwhile, as the terribly named Pepper Potts, Gwyneth Paltrow invests the thankless archetype of the torch-holding secretary with true warmth, and her scenes with Downey Jr zing with smart banter and thrum with unrequited passion. And, in case you hadn’t guessed, the role of Stark fits Downey Jr like a titanium-alloy, servo-assisted glove, the back-from-the-brink actor veering nimbly between the swaggering and sensitive sides of his character, never mistiming a wisecrack.
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Iron Man opens to theaters on May 2nd.
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