Review: Iron Man

Rating: 8/10 (29 March 2019)

Downey's performance is intriguing and unexpected. He Doesn't behave like most superheroes: he lacks psychic weight and gravity. Tony Stark has been created from the person Downey has created through many films: irreverent, Peculiar, self-critical, wise. The fact that Downey has permission to think and speak as he does while using all that hardware represents a bold decision on the part of the director, Jon Favreau. If I hadn't wanted that, I probably wouldn't have hired Downey. Downey is So comfortable with the dialogue of Tony Stark, so familiar that it sounds to come from him, that the script seems to have been dictated by the person of Downey.
There Are Some things that some actors can say with security on the screen, and other things that they can't. The person of Robert Downey Jr. Would find it difficult To get away with big and deep statements (in an "entertainment", anyway, a more serious film like "Zodiac" is another matter). Some superheroes speak in a kind of accented semi-formal prose, as if dictated to Bartlett's family appointments. Not Tony Stark. I Could talk that way and be Juno's uncle. " Iron Man "doesn't seem to know how seriously most superhero movies take themselves. If there is ingenuity in the dialogue, it is often assumed that the superhero does not know it. If There is ample humour, it usually belongs to the villain. What happens in "Iron Man" However, is that sometimes we ask ourselves how seriously Stark takes it. He is frivolous in the face of disaster, casual on the brink of ruin.
I Think it's prudent for Favreau to position the rest of the characters on a more serious line. The cast of support wisely does not try to overcome it. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Pepper Potts as a woman who is seriously concerned that this fool commits suicide. Jeff Bridges makes Obadiah Stane one of the great superhero villains apparently plausibly concerned about the stock price. Terrence Howard, like Colonel Rhodes, is at all times a conventional straight arrow. What a horror show it would have been if everyone was tuned to Tony Stark's sardonic vibe. We Would Return to the World of Swingers (1996) which was written by Favreau.
Another novelty of the film is that the enemy is not a conspiracy or a spy organization. Instead, it is reality in our own world today: armaments are spreading beyond the ability to control them. In Most films of this genre, the goal would be to create bigger and better weapons. It's only Tony Stark wants to disarm. It makes Him a superhero who can think, reason and draw moral conclusions, rather than one who recites common places
The film is mainly based on its special effects. When someone is not talking, something is hitting, making noise or putting gum. The Armored robotic suits used by Tony and Obadiah would stage fewer actors than Downey and Bridges; It is surprising how much those two gigantic iron men seem to reflect the personalities of men within them. Everything They do is absurd, of course, but they seem to be doing it, not the suits. Some of their moments have real grandeur, like when Tony tests his suit to see how high he will fly, and finally falls to the ground in a sequence that reminded me of a similar challenge in "The Right Stuff." The art direction is inspired by the original Marvel artists. The movie doesn't play Jack Kirby's drawings. and others, but it reproduces its feeling, a vision of enormity on a large scale, impeccable elegance, secret labs made not of nuts and screws but of... Views.
A lot of big budget f/x epics seem to abandon their stories when half an hour is missing, and they simply throw effects to the audience. This has such an ingenious storyline that it continues to work no matter how strong the impacts, how huge the explosions are. It'S an inspiration to give Tony that heart-saving device; He is vulnerable not only because Obadiah could destroy him, but because he could simply run out of juice.
That leaves us, however, with a fundamental question at the end of the story: why should the ultimate weapon be humanoid in appearance? Why should he have two arms and two legs, and why does it matter if his face is frowning? In real-world competitions between combat machines, all elements of the design are based entirely on issues of how well they allow machines to attack, defend, recover, stand upright and overthrow their enemies. It'S irrelevant if they have conventional eyes or if those eyes narrow. It Doesn't matter if they have noses, because obviously their supply Oxygen is not obtained by breathing.
The solution to these dilemmas is that armoured suits are seen as they do for totally cinematic reasons. The Wicked Iron Man should look like a petty machine. The Good man of iron must use the colors of the racing of the favorite sports cars of Tony Stark. It would Not be so much fun to see a fight scene between two refrigerators crossed with the leftovers of a boiler room.
At the end of the day, it is Robert Downey Jr. Who drives the takeoff that separates him from most of the other superhero movies. You Hire an actor for his strengths, and Downey wouldn't be as strong as a powerful one-dimensional man. It Is Strong because it is smart, fast and fun, and because we feel that your public person masks deep private wounds. Based on that, Favreau found his film, and it's a good one. 4/5.