Saturday, May 03, 2008

Iron Man

At 125 mins but every scene kept me on my toes. Human can't fly but if you are rich and smart enough, you can.

Tony Stark by Robert Downey Jnr is billionaire industrialist who make weapons that kept America strong.

But he was kidnapped by some T which was actually a plot setup by Obadiah, the seem to be second-in-command in Stark Industries.

He was injured and saved by another T who fit in a pacemaker into his body that kept his heart running. The Ts ordered Stark to make the Jericho missles for them. But Tony had other plans, out of no where, he started to build a suit that was their ticket out of there. And miraculously, he managed to improvise on a pacemaker that can drive the suit and give it power/energy.

He succeeded of course, bashing his way out. After returning home, he realised that building weapons was not the way anymore, as it kills too many innocents people. He told the press that the weapons divisons will be shut down and that pissed off Obadiah.

Tony was told to lie low and then put all efforts into making the real Iron Man outfit. In addition, a new more powerful pacemaker that provides more energy.

Must mention, his pretty assistant, Pepper Potts by Gwyneth Paltrow changed the pacer for him. She then put the original pacemaker into a box and gave him as a present.

Though the so obvious that she liked him elements wasn't quite exploited in this movie, probably in the next few ones to come.

News got out that some mysterious flying object crashed a F-22 and on the other hand, the Ts managed to recover the pieces of the original Iron Man suit which crashed landed in some desserts. The scene which 2 T were trying to puzzle match the pieces back was quite KT. Anyway, they manage to so call pieced them back and showed it to Obadiah. He got the suit back and got it re-made into something huge, the Iron Monger.

But slightly one problem, his team couldn't come up with the power requirements for the suit. So he had to steal it from Tony and he succeeded, sneaking up on him with some seems like ultra high frequency device that no human can withstand. Tony was immobilized and Obadiah just took out the pacemaker and walked away.

Heng, the present still there. With the original pacemaker, Tony slipped into his Iron Man suit and went after Obadiah for the final showdown. 7/10

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