Iron Man: To Peace!

Director: Jon Favreu
Writers: Mark Fergus, Hawk Hostby
Producers: Avi Arad, Kevin Feige

Starring: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/ Iron Man, Terrence Howard as Jim Rhodes, Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger, Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts, Leslie Bibb as Christine Everhart, Shaun Toub as Yinsen, Faran Tahir as Raza, Sayed Badreya as Abu Bakaar(IMDb). Rated-PG13.

Tony Stark is in a military hummer being driven after a weapon presentation when a surprise attack from an insurgent group ultimately render him to captivity in a cave. The insurgent group instructs him to build his latest weapon, the Jericho, and they will set him free. Sensing he will not be set free, along with his captive Yinsen, who Tony has befriended, instead of building the Jericho, Tony builds the prototype of the iron man suit which helps him escape. Upon returning to the United States, and after witnessing how his weapons could be used, Tony decides to perfect his iron man suite to fight corruption.

This is a good introductory film that mainly expounded how Tony Stark became Iron Man. All the details that were delineated were key to making sure movie watchers understood the life of the superhero. Transformation was the main theme of this film as a lot time was spent explaining how Tony Stark developed from a genius/party animal to an affected human being who experienced tragedy. This is really a film about the origin of Iron Man, and thankfully the details of his origin were well provided.

One of the major drawbacks of this film was that, there was not enough Iron Man, but there was enough to keep me somewhat satisfied. Also, I was expecting more action, but the action that was in the film was satisfying. The ending, it was somewhat anticlimactic but it was not that bad.The pace of the film was great, and the casting was great, but this movie was a big tease. According to Movies.com, the fans and critics agree on a grade of A-, but I will side with neither and give it a B. Stay tuned Movieporium.blogspot.com.