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Starring Robert Downey Jnr, Jeff Bridges
Directed by Jon Favreau
When playboy millionaire and arms manufacturer Tony Stark is kidnapped in Afghanistan with – oh cruel irony – his own warheads, he learns a lesson in collateral damage.
He also learns how to build the ultimate defensive weapon, a flying suit that, once refined with Stark technology, leads him on the righteous path and in direct conflict with the board of his own company.
The fight between good and evil becomes a many-layered thing. Even though director Favreau frequently ignores fundamental laws of physics (Stark’s suit, not his body, is the stuff of super-heroes), Downey Jnr’s charisma is more than enough to paper over the cracks.
His performance is one of the most exciting since Christopher Reeves donned a cape and ignites a sparkling chemistry when paired with zealous laboratory robots or the unexpected villainy of an unrecognisable Jeff Bridges.
Cut with fashionable frenzy by an over-caffeinated editor, Iron Man is not the most elegant of films, yet it is a stimulating and exciting one. Penned by the screenwriters of Children of Men, it’s packed with an urgent morale tone and a mischievous sense of humour that earns extra points.
In a world sorely needing new action heroes, Iron Man is da man.
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