Title: Iron Man
Date: 2008
Type: Sci-Fi / Action
Rating: 3/5
Colour: Yes
Director: Jon Favreau
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Robert Downey Jr is a brilliant engineer who is captured by rebels in Afganistan whilst demonstrating a new weapon. They force him to build a weapon for them but instead he builds a protective suit that he uses to escape. He decides that his company will stop making weapons, but when he finds that his patner is selling weapons to terrorists he builds a new suit and goes on a mission to fight evil. The plot is not original, but the stunts and CGI do not overpower the film and are in good balance with the live action. Robert Doweny is good as the hero and Jeff Bridges is suitably meanacing as his corrupt partner, however Gywneth Paltrow is underused in a role that is a glorified PA / love interest. Even someone with her talent is going to struggle with the dialogue she has to deliver, which is a shame.
Actors
Robert Downey Jr
Jeff Bridges
Gwyneth Paltrow
Paul Bettany (voice)
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