Iron Man

Tony Stark entered the world of comic books back in 1963 as one of the characters of Tales of Suspense Series. He quickly gained popularity, got his own series, which is still in publication today, and became one of the key characters of the entire Marvel Universe. So how you not make a movie based on such a successful comic?

I like Stark compared to other Marvel heroes because he is neither a mutant like the milksop spider, nor one of the small group of mutant losers from the X People. He became a superhero and created a super armor for himself, - all thanks to his genius and intelligence.

Obadiah Stein is playing the enemy in film. He is a colleague of Stark who wants to dismiss him from the position as the company president. The enemy, of course, is not the best. I never even imagined Stark without Mandarin. They are as inseparable as Halk and General Ross. Maybe the creators were afraid that those who are unaware of the situation would not understand all the toughness of this colourful bastard and would think he is not funny. By the way, ten rings were mentioned in the film, but not a word was said about Mandarin. Nevertheless, Bridges made Obadiah quite colourful. At first, he seemed like a positive character, and later we learnt the whole truth about him: Stein is greedy and insidious.

Downy is simply a genius playing Stark. He perfectly fits the image of an eccentric billionaire, a great scientist and simply a ladies’ man. His character is very relaxed in film, not as in comics. But this can even amount to an advantage. I also have to mention his magnificent humour.

Gwyneth is beautiful as always and acts well.

I was pleased with Terrence Howard’s performance as Roads, a “correct” military man and at the same time Tony’s best friend. It was fun to watch the scene when there was armour near him, but he said: “Not now, guys.” It would be nice to see him wearing a suit. I hope that this will happen in a sequel, which I’m sure will be released, as the issue of Stark’s alcoholism was omitted from the movie.

Special effects were on the rise! 186 million were not spent in vain–no doubt about it. Although there were not so many action scenes, all of them were produced on the highest level: Beginning from the explosion of Jericho in Afghanistan and ending with the final battle of the Iron Man and Obadiah in Iron Mongere.

The armour design deserves a separate mention. Mark 1 a/k/a Tin Can looks enough comical, but the most important thing is that the creators made him precisely the same (almost) as he was in the comics. Mark 2, athough we did not get to see much of him, is less similar to the comical version. He does not look golden, but is still cool enough. Mark 3 certainly did them all! Granov and Sanders did a fine work on his design since the golden-red colour of the armour, as it was in comics was not good to see. Yes, it was replaced with yellow-red. When in use, it looks indescribably super and stylish.

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We were promised Samuel L. Jackson as a cameo, playing Nick Fury. This immediately confused me because they were going to show the classical version of the Universe, but Fury was always white there. Although Jackson is cooler–who would argue? However, all of that is now irrelevant since he did not appear in movie anyway… But then, there was Stan Lee’s cameo in the film like in other Marvel films. The cameo was amusing as usual.

It is necessary to give a special credit to the ending. I think it will please all.

As a result, years of expectations were not for nothing. A quality summer blockbuster was released, and it was the best Marvel comics filming for me.