Iron Man Returns

This past weekend my boyfriend took me out to the movies, and we saw the new superhero film Iron Man which stars Robert Downey Jr. I am not a fan of comic books and neither is my boyfriend but the film requires no knowledge coming into the theatre. The film does a great job of introducing you to Downey Jr’s character Tony Stark who is a self absorbed billionaire who has taken over his late father’s high tech arms company. Stark Industry, one of the U.S. Government’s top weapons contractors, has designed a new high-tech weapon, currently being used to obliterate insurgents in Afghanistan.

Tony and his best friend and military officer Jim Rhodes played by Terrence Howard, go to Afghanistan to see Stark's handiwork firsthand. A ride in a Humvee ends up in a deadly explosion, leaving solders dead and an injured Tony captured by Raza, the evil leader of the insurgents. Only in a comic-book movie could a prisoner build a super flying suit while in captivity. Tony escapes, and after a dual with a few U.S. Air Force jets ends up back home.

I won’t tell you the rest of the film but it is really intense and action packed. Robert Downey Jr. is great in this role. He is not a young fresh face in the role of a superhero like Toby Maguire in Spider Man and Eric Banner in The Hulk, but he shows his experience as an actor by showing his ability to be cool and laid back and the being heroic and serious. This movie is very good and hopefully you will get a chance to see it.