Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges.
Iron Man is the movie adaptation of Marvel's comic series.The DVD and Blue Ray editions of the movie were out on September 20th 2008.The oscar nominated actor Robert Downey Jr. is in the lead role as Tony Stark alias Iron Man in this wonderful story of a billionare industrialist and technical genuis who got kidnapped in the deserts of afganistan to build a devastating weapon.He builds a state of the art armor suit from scraps using his brain to escape from his captors.He then finds that there is a greater conspiracy happening around him and his arms company, he wears the suit and masks himself as 'The Iron Man' to protect he world.
Obadiah Stane Jeff Bridges) is Stark's confidente and a powerful person in his board of directors.Stane is a thinking man who resort to any means for getting his job on hand done.Obdiah has been the prominent figure of Stark Industries.Lt. Colonel James Rhodes (Terrence Howard) is the military chief assigned to deal with Stark .He is Stark's best friend.Virginia 'Pepper' Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is the executive assistant of Stark.She knows all about Tony and how he thinks.She even often advise him whenever he strays away from the rails.
Tony is a playboy who is a great genius inventor.His invention of the armoured suit and his stay in captivity at the hands of Afganistan jehadis make him a different person.He proposes that Stark industries should stay out of the weapons business.The movie is a thrilling experience.The language used by jehadis in the film in the initial scenes is hindi which points to poor research by the film makers.There are good CG scenes in this movie that makes you thrilled.
Keralabox rating for this movie is 6.5 out of 10.0 points.
