Iron Man (2008)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 243
Fresh: 227 | Rotten: 16
Director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey make this smart, high impact superhero movie one that even non-comics fans can enjoy.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 49
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 5
Director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey make this smart, high impact superhero movie one that even non-comics fans can enjoy.
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From Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures comes Iron Man, an action-packed take on the tale of wealthy philanthropist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), who develops an invulnerable robotic suit to fight the throes of evil. In addition to being filthy rich, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark is also a genius inventor. When Stark is kidnapped and forced to build a diabolical weapon, he instead uses his intelligence and ingenuity to construct an indestructible suit of armor and escape his captors.
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Robert Downey Jr.
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Terrence Howard
Lt. Colonel James Rh... -
Jeff Bridges
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Gwyneth Paltrow
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Shaun Toub
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Faran Tahir
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Clark Gregg
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Bill Smitrovich
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Sayed Badreya
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Robert Downey Jr. gives a nicely sardonic performance as Tony Stark, a rich playboy and the brilliant heir to his father's weapons manufacturing dynasty.
Top CriticThere are a few scenes in Iron Man that make you realize why we rely on giant studios and big budgets come the summer months.
A supremely confident, well-tooled entertainment. It's bound to be the early pace-maker for the oncoming glut of summer blockbusters.
Downey is at his charismatic best, rendering believable Stark's transformation from self-indulgent jerk to socially conscious crusader.
At the end of the day it's Robert Downey Jr. who powers the lift-off separating this from most other superhero movies.
Jon Favreau's 'Iron Man': The $100-Million Iraq War Movie
This is buoyant, bright, a constant breeze. But still it hovers somewhere on the superhero-adap spectrum between the good and the great.
Iron Man is better when Robert Downey Jr. is alone on the screen than when he's sharing it. It's when those inconvenient other people show up that the movie loses its way.
The key, of course, is Downey, who effortlessly conveys that his newfound sense of responsibility isn't going to stop him from having a good time, and in doing so, Iron Man makes saving the world look like fun again.
In an exemplary piece of casting, Downey Jr gives a powerhouse performance, adding depth and believability to his character as both self-indulgent waster and do-gooder superhero.
Indeed, the entire script is a thing of beauty. Stark possesses a bone-dry sense of humor that reveals itself throughout the film.
Why did Iron Man seem so slight to me when I've watched it on my computer? Quite possibly these "event" pictures need a huge screen and a pounding sound system to convince viewers of their worth.
A grand superhero movie that features a brilliant performance by Robert Downey Jr., in one of his best roles.
Iron Man is funny without being silly, yet can kick ass to the moon and back when the chips are down.
With its first self-financed production, Marvel has produced one of the best superhero movies ever made, pure popcorn pleasure for its special effects, its story, its villain, and its hero.
As a first franchise entry and a blockbuster to kick off the summer season, Iron Man proves to be an excellent introduction.
A completely different superhero movie which not only delights visually, but also engrosses with a very well adapted, character driven story of a redemptive figure who becomes the ultimate global hero.
If this is a taster for something even more impressive in the sequel touted for 2010, there is already a reason to get excited as the more we see of Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, the better.
Clever and cogent beats idiotic and incoherent, and Iron Man is spryer than the overwhelming majority of films in its budget range.
If anyone doubted Marvel's ability to make the leap to full fledged studio, their first effort, Iron Man, should be enough to erase all doubts.
Intriguing for its meta-narrative of celebrity redemption
At its best, Iron Man serves as an unlikely vehicle for the irrepressible Downey, who redeems it from tedium with the apt one-liner and pratfall.
Iron Man is an appealing superhero movie. It's also clunky. It's welded together out of disparate pieces that clank and ping. Though at times it's leaden, Iron Man also has enough moments of pizazz to intermittently soar.
A slickly-attractive, well-cast and solidly-constructed piece of mainstream action-adventure entertainment.
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- Obadiah Stane: Give up Tony! My suit is more superior to yours in every way!
- Tony Stark: How'd you solve the icing problem?
- Obadiah Stane: Icing problem?
- Tony Stark: Might want to look into it.
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- Tony Stark: Give me a scotch. I'm starving.
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- Tony Stark: [when Pepper catches him in the Iron Man suit] Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing.
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- Tony Stark: We gotta go. Come on, move with me. We got a plan, and we're going to stick to it.
- Yinsen: This was always the plan, Stark...
- Tony Stark: Come on, you're going to go see your family. Get up.
- Yinsen: My family is dead, Stark... and I'm going to see them now. It's okay, I want this... I want this.
- Tony Stark: Thank you for saving me.
- Yinsen: Don't waste it... don't waste your life, Stark.
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- Obadiah Stane: When I ordered the hit on you, I was worried that I was killing the golden goose. But, you see, it was just fate that you survived it, leaving one last golden egg to give. You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?
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- Agent Coulson: I'm Agent Phil Coulson with the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.
- Virginia "Pepper" Potts: That's quite a mouthful.
- Agent Coulson: I know. We're working on it.
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