A Bit Robo -Coppish

Rating: 6/10 (3 July 2008)

WOW!! What a let down!!!!
Robert DowneyJnr plays the arrogant and conceited super rich Jack Stark CEO of Stark weapons manufacture who travels to Afghanistan to release a new and more powerful and destructive Cluster type Missile system his company has developed. Soon after would his convoy is ambushed by a group of terrorists using his own companies weapons. Although he is fatally injured the terrorist group has a doctor who performs revolutionary pacemaker surgery to keep him alive and prevent shrapnel from shredding Jack's heart. They have kept him alive in order to get Jack Stark to build new missile weapons for them. Instead he build the prototype Iron Man suit. From this point I was getting Deja-vu for the "ROBOCOP" film. In the Iron Man suit Jack makes his escape and gets rescued and returned to his great empire at home. Here we see his assistant Pepper Potts, the newly and obviously surgically modified transformed Gwyneth Paltrow, assisting him with his most personal chores such as seeing off young sexy reporter groupies and performing Heart pace maker surgery. Jack eventually discovers via the same sexy groupie reporter that his late father's former partner and major shareholder , Obadia Stone ( Jeff Bridges) is selling STARK weapons to enemies of the USA in Afghanistan and that he ordered Jack's murder in Afghanistan in order to take over STARK which makes you wonder why he let him survive in the first place. There are some great visual effects in this film but the final showdown is a copy of "ROBOCOP" even in the way Jack Starks IRONMAN defeats the much more powerful and larger Obadia Stone's IRON MAN. Like Transformers this film has little to offer except flash special effects scenes which getting a bit passe every time they are used in this way.
I am giving it two stars for its entertainment value for young teenagers.