Iron Man - An honest review by an honest man
Even if you’re not familiar with the comics (I’m not either), when a movie is titled „Iron Man“ you surely expect a movie chock-full of action, explosions, a badass main character and as little as possible of that annoying story-thingy. Only the manliest of ingredients. Well, I’ve got good news for you, my Testosteron-packed friends: „Iron Man“ delivers!
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the world’s leading weapons’ merchant. He’s admired by the freedom-, and of course, gun-loving people of America, pleased by the beautiful women he happens to come across and spends most of his time in his „garage“ (it’s actually a high-tech lab) or driving around giving manly speeches. Pretty great life, isn’t it? Definitely. Well…at least until he gets kidnapped by terrorists and thrown into their prison, which is actually a small cave somewhere in the desert. Oh and yeah, they’re from the Middle East (duh!). They force him to build a powerful weapon for them, but instead he treats himself to a nice iron suit, hence the name of the movie. From that day forward he’s not the man he used to be. Instead of manufacturing weapons to kill people, he now kills the evil people who bought them. It’s still basically killing, but seeing a beardy old rapist getting shot in the face just spares you the moral implications one might have.
So that’s about everything that can be said about the plot without spoiling too much. It’s a pretty basic storyline, one that you would expect from every usual superhero-movie. But it gets the job done! When my friend jammed the DVD into his player and we toasted with two good, cheap German „Öttingers“ I wanted manly entertainment. And let me assure you the beer was the only thing containing trace-amounts of estrogen in the room. Tony Stark is just such a hard-ass character. I admit, he’s a real asshole at times. He’s being a jerk to women, he doesn’t care about the advice of anyone and well…he likes to kill people. However, who hasn’t dreamed of having sex with a hot female New York Times reporter, telling your colleagues you don’t give a sh*t about what they think and give some dispickable low-lifes what’s coming to them?
This movie definitely doesn’t set the bar for moral standards, nor does it teach you a healthy lesson about life, nor does it tell a deep story. It’s just about coolness and action. Oh, and before I forget, about the beauty of Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), who is Stark’s personal assistant and does whatever he tells her for no appearent reason. „Iron Man“ appeals to the most archaic parts of men. And that’s what makes it so entertaining.
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Official Site: http://ironmanmovie.marvel.com/
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/