Marvel comic's Iron Man came to life on the screen over weekend. Robert Downey Jr. plays the suave genius Tony Starks, who creates / becomes the Iron Man under some stressful conditions in remote Afghanistan, goes from being a millionaire tomboy selling weapons to a robotic superhero with a conscience. It does sound rather cheesy but it works.The slick action sequences does help in making it work, but it is the fringe characters like Stark's assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and evil Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) that lace the icing on the cake with cyanide. The heavy metal soundtrack was brilliant. It could have been even better if the birth of the iron superhero was fueled by the opening lines of Black Sabbath's Iron Man. And if the script writer had gone easy on the cloying orey funny lines, this could have been a perfect graphic novel film. But that would be asking for too much...
Rating: * * +
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