In a desperate attempt to escape the terrorists, Stark builds a powerful exoskeletal armour suit that is able to protect him from various dangers such as gunfire and explosions. Besides that, his armor is able to shoot projectiles and act as a flamethrower to burn his enemies. After that, he improves his armor and swears to use it to save the world.
As compared to the rest of Marvel’s action flicks, this movie is different as Stark does not have any special abilities on his own. Ironman is a character that is portrayed as a hero who struggles to obtain his abilities. His superhero abilities are derived from his special suit. The movie conveys a clear message that it is possible to achieve your goal if you are determined enough – as the movie shows Stark’s humorous trial and error process as he made his suit.
The movie lacks action at the beginning and it is pretty understandable for the fact that it needs to show the introduction of the superhero. But, the action becomes more obvious in the later parts of the movie. As expected, the trailer gave away too much of the movie with Jeff Bridges playing “Ironmonger” – as the villain. The bad part of this movie is that it does not really seem to fall in place with the rest of the announced sequels by Marvel. For that, it seems that the future sequels will have an abrupt introduction of the ultimate villain Ironman needs to face.
Marvel promised the sequels to be displaying Stark’s alcoholism problem. This jolts me in thinking that it is a real problem that people face currently. Therefore, it comes to me that it will be interesting to watch him deal with a factual problem in the sequels. Honestly, I am quite tired of watching other superheroes deal with problem that deal with romance.
Currently, the movie really made me reminisce about my childhood. This was the reason why I went to dig for the opening of the previous Ironman. It’s a rather short opening but it really did contain all the heroic and masculine aspects of Ironman itself.
While testosterone was certainly not the key to fighting villains with magical powers, this video just proved that it is impossible for a guy to handle his company and his muscles at the same time.
