Iron Man, the movie
May. 14th, 2008 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamshark... is surprisingly good.
It's very well paced, beautifully photographed and extremely well acted (esp. by Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role and Gwyneth Paltrow as his loyal but plucky assistant. But everybody else is just dandy too). Best of all, Tony Stark doesn't finally climb into his red and yellow armored suit until the movie is entering the final half hour. So the damn thing doesn't wear out its welcome like the CGI characters in just about every other comic book movie ever made. In fact, the action scenes with the suit are fast and fun and left me kind of hoping for another glimpse of the thing. This especially surprised me because the reason I never read Iron Man was because I don't like superheroes in armor, or otherwise without faces.
Of course, it's still a comic book movie. The plot is iconic, but not remotely realistic. And it's the kind of universe where CEOs personally design all the corporation's products, bald guys are always evil, and nobody ever has to worry about the effects of momentum.
It's very well paced, beautifully photographed and extremely well acted (esp. by Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role and Gwyneth Paltrow as his loyal but plucky assistant. But everybody else is just dandy too). Best of all, Tony Stark doesn't finally climb into his red and yellow armored suit until the movie is entering the final half hour. So the damn thing doesn't wear out its welcome like the CGI characters in just about every other comic book movie ever made. In fact, the action scenes with the suit are fast and fun and left me kind of hoping for another glimpse of the thing. This especially surprised me because the reason I never read Iron Man was because I don't like superheroes in armor, or otherwise without faces.
Of course, it's still a comic book movie. The plot is iconic, but not remotely realistic. And it's the kind of universe where CEOs personally design all the corporation's products, bald guys are always evil, and nobody ever has to worry about the effects of momentum.
