Iron Man Trailer

I went to see Iron Man today. Overall I thought it was pretty entertaining. In the beginning, it started with him driving in a Humvee caravan which gets attacked and they take him as a prisoner. Then they go back 36 hours before that and basically catch you up with who Tony Stark (Iron Man) is. The go all the way up to when he is captured and then continue from there. I didn’t really get the point of that, why not just start from the beginning in the first place. If you can get past a few things like how quickly be built both Iron Man suits then it was a decent movie.

I didn’t read the Iron Man comics as a kid so I don’t know how closely the movie followed the original story. In this movie, Tony Stark is the son of Howard Stark who helped build the atomic bomb. He takes over the company and continues to be the top weapons manufacture in the world. After he is captured, the terrorist force him to build the latest weapon he was showing the US Military. Instead he builds the first Iron Man suit and breaks out. He sees they have a lot of his company’s weapons so he blows them all up and flies off. After he gets back, he has a press conference stating Stark Enterprises will no longer manufacture weapons. His partner, Obadiah Stane, tells him to lay low and let him handle things with the board members when he is the actual one selling weapons to the terrorists. He was also the one that hired them to kill Tony Stark. Obadiah winds up getting the scrap parts from the first Iron Man suit and building his own. Tony also built a new suit while laying low. To power the suit Obadiah built, he needed the small arc reactor that Tony built. He goes to his home, uses some paralyzing sound device and takes the reactor out of Tony. Tony’s ARMY friend shows up in time to put in the original reactor to save Tony’s life. Then it was time for the showdown. Tony gets into his suit and flies over to meet up with Iron Monger (Obadiah). They go at it for a while and with the help of Tony’s assistant, they blow up a giant arc reactor which kills Obadiah. In the end, the CIA and ARMY want Tony to downplay what happened at a press conference giving him cue cards to read from which he doesn’t, telling the press that he is Iron Man. Expect to see a sequel for sure.