- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: May 2, 2008
- Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard
- Summary:
- Director: Jon Favreau
- Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 38
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Mixed: 5 out of 38
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Negative: 0 out of 38
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100You hire an actor for his strengths, and Downey would not be strong as a one-dimensional mighty-man. He is strong because he is smart, quick and funny, and because we sense his public persona masks deep private wounds. By building on that, Favreau found his movie, and it's a good one.
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100Ever-eclectic director Jon Favreau, who briefly pops up onscreen as a Stark minion, maintains a brisk but not frantic pace, and, in concert with lenser Matthew Libatique, production designer J. Michael Riva and the first-rate visual effects team, has made an unusually elegant looking film for the genre.
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60Though Iron Man is diverting enough in the comic-book-movie mode, there is one thing it doesn't have, and that is dramatic unity. Unlike the irreducible element that is its namesake, Iron Man the movie is an alloy, a combination of several different and disconnected components that don't manage to unite to make a coherent whole.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 241 out of 280
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Mixed: 15 out of 280
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Negative: 24 out of 280
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