Iron Man Movie Review
"Iron Man" is a comic book movie that doesn't know it's a comic book movie, or at least won't allow itself to be weighed down by this fact. Instead of simply perpetuating the "bombast=bucks" formula that has produced so many summer blockbusters, actor-turned-director Jon Favreau ("Elf" "Zathura") has added brains to the equation and crafted a superhero epic that is as sharply witted as it is spectacular.
While the film's story resembles the architecture of most other comic book films, its energy is something brand new for the genre. Favreau and his cast clearly have not taken a summer action movie vacation, but treat the film as a rowdy character piece which is as dazzling as most comic book movies and smarter than any other I've seen.
Leading the charge is the remarkable Robert Downey Jr., who owns his character of Tony Stark, the millionaire industrialist turned iron clad superhero, like no other actor since Johnny Depp unleashed Capt. Jack Sparrow upon the world. But unlike Depp's work in the "Pirates" movies, no one on this production feels like they are straining to keep up; Favreau never seems to be reigning Downey in, but instead allows the film to feed off of his energy, to the point where every actor seems to be working without a net in the same way that he is.
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