HERE'S A MAN

MOVIE: Iron Man (2008)
CAST: Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Faran Tahir
DIRECTOR: John Favreu
RATING:



Downey plays a genius of robotic engineering who also is a genius at coming up with pick up lines which tickle any female onto his bed. He is Tony Stark, the genius who with his amazing engineering skills has revolutionized weapon making and his incorporation, Stark Industries does it for the good of mankind and the good of America. Amidst all the girls who have one night stands with him, stands firmly his secretary, Pepper Pots(Paltrow), who shares a rather special relationship with Stark. The dynamics of the portrayal of this relationship is the high point of the movie.

Downey goes to Afghanistan to demonstrate a new missile he has invented to the US troops out there. As always, the writer has been too pro-American in the writing and the story has been politically very correct with respect to America, which often means that it is a deviation from the realities. It is something like the Golden Globe sensation, Slumdog Millionaire; no Indian can isprove that such things don't happen, but no American can prove that such things happen either!!

That apart, Stark is abducted by an Afghan terrorist group where he is asked to make the same missile for them. The movie goes on to reveal that the second incommand to Stark, Obadiah Stane is a traitor and supplies Stark Industries weapons to these terrorists. It is unclear as to why the terrorists chose to abduct Stark instead of using Stane to supply them the missile they wanted.

Stark in the pretext of making them the missile, makes a computer operated iron suite which he uses to fight out the terrorists and makes an escape. Later on he develops this suite to become , Iron Man.

The special effects in this movie are superior to The Dark Knight and are without a doubt one of the all time bests. Apart from the screenplay and the direction, its more of Downey's cheesy acting which keeps an audience gripped. The background score is appropriately good and keeps up the momentum of the movie.

I always have believed that the scope in making a superhero movie is tremendous. It just requires a good imaginative writer and a rich producer who has faith in the writer's imagination. Iron Man seems to have both. This movie was more of the Birth of Iron Man, and the sequel has been announced for 2010. All I can say is, Robert Downey, we are waiting for the Iron packed experience.....