This is a good movie for all ages and taken in content can make the movie watcher question the “Industrial War Machine”.
The movie starts with the story of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) who is an engineering genius that inherited his father's weapons manufacturing company Stark Enterprise. Tony Stark is captured in Afghanistan and held in a cage for three months. In order to escape he secretly builds an iron man costume. During this time Stark realizes that his company is supplying both sides of the conflict in order to profit from the war.
When he returns to America he announces that his company Stark Enterprise will no longer be in the business of making weapons. He is informed by his long time business partner Obadiah (Jeff Bridges) that the board of directors has taken control of the company and they will continue with their weapons production.
I'm going to give the story away, but the movie is filled with action and witty one liners between Tony Stark and his assistant Pepper (Gwyneth Paltrow). The action scenes in the movie reminded me of Transformers and the action fights were short. The final battle scene in the movie was against Iron Man and another colossal iron suited man from his company.
Robert Downey plays an excellent roll as Tony Stark. He is quick with the wit. At one time his assistant Pepper walks in on him getting undressed from his Iron Man uniform and all he could say is “Oh, there's worst things you've walked in on me on.”
The computer aided graphics were amazing. I am glad I saw this movie on the bog screen instead of waiting for the DVD. The soundtrack was all heavy metal music, until the scenes with the Afghan fighters which was classical music.
The story of Iron Man in Marvel Comics was no doubt influenced by Eisenhower's warning of the “Industrial War Machine” speech. The modern twist on this story by applying it to Afghanistan and Iraq makes this movie very relevant. This was a very enjoyable movie. I took my children (age 12 and 5) to see it and they enjoyed it also.
