Iron Man Re-Review

Iron Man


Release Date: 1st May 2008 - Australia


Production Companies
Paramount Pictures (presents)
Marvel Enterprises (presents)
Marvel Studios
Fairview Entertainment (in association with)
Dark Blades Films

Distribution
Paramount Pictures Australia


Genre: Sci-Fi/Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 126 minutes


Budget: $140,000,000

Box Office Gross: $585,796,247 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary

When wealthy philanthropist Tony Stark ventures into Iraq territory for a weapons demonstration, he gets injured and is captured by Afghan terrorists who take him to their hideout. While imprisoned, Tony invents a weaponised suit of armour and uses it in an escape attempt. He safely returns home and uses his high-tech to perfect the armour, becoming the world's saviour Iron Man.


Cast
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony
Stark/Iron Man
Terence Howard - Lt. Colonel
James "Rhodey" Rhodes
Jeff Bridges - Obadiah Stane
Gwyneth Paltrow - Virginia
"Pepper" Potts
Shaun Toub - Dr. Yinsen
Faran Tahir - Raza
Paul Bettany - JARVIS (Voice)
Jon Favreau - Hogan
Leslie Bibb - Christine Everhart
Clark Gregg - Agent Phil
Coulson
Bill Smitrovich - General Gabriel
Sayed Badreya - Abu Bakaar
Peter Billingsley - William
Ginter Riva
Tim Guinee - Major Allen
Kevin Foster - Jimmy
Garrett Noel - Pratt
Eileen Weisinger - Ramirez
Ahmed Ahmed - Ahmed
Fahim Fazli - Omar
Gerard Sanders - Howard Stark
Nazanin Boniadi - Amira Ahmed
Thomas Craig Plumer - Colonel Craig
Jim Cramer - Himself (Cameo)
Stan Lee - Himself (Cameo)
Samuel L. Jackson - Nick Fury (Cameo) (Uncredited)

Crew
Executive Producer/Director - Jon Favreau

Based on the Marvel Comic Book/

Executive Producer - Stan Lee

Based on the Marvel Comic Book -

Don Heck, Larry Lieber and Jack Kirby
Screenplay - Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby,

Art Marcum and Mark Holloway

Script Supervisors - Rebecca Robertson

and Cristina Weigmann
Executive Producers - Ari Arad,

Peter Billingsley, Jeremy Latcham

and David Maisel
Executive Producer/Unit Production Manager -
Louis D'Esposito
Executive Producer/Executive in Charge of
Production - Ross Fanger
Producers - Avid Arad and Kevin Feige
Co-Producer/Visual Effects Producer -
Victoria Alonso

Military Advisor - Harry Humphries
Casting Directors - Sarah Finn
and Randi Hiller

Production Designer - J. Michael Riva
Supervising Art Director - David F. Klassen
Art Directors - Richard F. Mays

and Susan Wexler
Set Decorator - Lauri Gaffin

Property Master - Russell Bobbitt

Costume Designers - Rebecca Gregg
and Laura Jean Shannon

Suit Consultant - Adi Granov

Director of Photography/A-Camera Operator -

Matthew Libatique

Additional Photography - Gabriel Beristain

Director of Photography: Second Unit -

Jonathan Taylor

Aerial Director of Photography - David B. Nowell

Aerial Camera Operator - Craig O'Brien

Helicopter Pilot - Kevin LaRosa

First Assistant Camera: "B" Camera - Taylor Matheson

Production Supervisor - David J. Grant

First Assistant Director - Eric Heffron

Second Assistant Director - Michael J. Moore

Second Assistant Director: Second Unit -

Chris Castaldi

Additional Second Second Assistant Director -

Marvin Williams
Second Unit Director - Phil Neilson

Location Managers - Molly Allen

and Liz Matthews
Stunt Coordinator - Thomas Robinson Harper

Stunt Coordinator: Second Unit - Keith Woulard

Aerial Stunt Coordinator - Tim Rigby

Special Effects Coordinator - Daniel Sudick

Special Effects - Stan Winston (Uncredited)

Suit Model Department Key Coordinator:

Stan Winston Studio - David Merritt

Second Unit Co-Coordinator: Stan Winston

Studio - Christopher Swift

Studio Co-Adminstrator: Stan Winston Studio -

John Rosengrant

Visual Effects Supervisor - John Nelson

Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM - Ben Snow

Visual Effects Supervisor: The Orphanage -

Jonathan Rothbart

Visual Effects Supervisor: Lola Visual Effects -

Edson Williams

Additional Visual Effects Supervisor - Wesley Sewell
Visual Effects Producer: ILM - Wayne Billheimer
Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - Aaron McBride
Physical Suit Effects Supervisor - Shane Mahan

Visualisation/HUD Effects Supervisor - Kent Seki

Animation Supervisor: ILM - Hal T. Hickel

Associate Animation Supervisor: ILM - Marc Chu

Digital Production Supervisor: ILM - Douglas Smythe

Compositing Supervisor: ILM - Jeff Sutherland

CG Supervisor: ILM - Philippe Rebours

Digital Model Supervisor: ILM - Bruce Holcomb

Viewpaint Supervisor: ILM - Ron Woodall

Creature Supervisor: ILM - James Tooley

Film Editor - Dan Lebental

Additional Editors - Derek Brechin,

Greg Parsons and Michael Tronick

Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor

(Uncredited)/Re-Recording Mixer - Christopher Boyes

Sound Designer - Shannon Mills

Supervising Sound Editor - Frank E. Eulner

ADR Supervisor - Michael Silvers

ADR Editor - Gwendolyn Yates Whittle

Sound Mixer - Mark Ulano

Foley Mixer - Frank Rinella

Foley Artists - Ronni Brown,

Ellen Heuer, Dennie Thorpe and

Lana Vance

Re-Recording Mixer - Lora Hirschberg

Music - Ramin Djawadi
Additional Music Arranger/Composer/
Musician: Drums - Ryeland Allison

Additional Music Arrangers/Composers -

Lorne Balfe, Clay Duncan, Bobby Tahouri

and Atli Orvarsson (Uncredited)

Music Supervisor - Dave Jordan

Executive Music Producer - Hans Zimmer

Score Recordist - Geoff Foster

Score Mixer - Alan Meyerson

Awards

2009 Academy Awards
Best Sound Editing - Frank E. Eulner and
Christopher Boyes (Nominated)
Best Visual Effects - John Nelson, Ben Snow,
Daniel Sudick and Shane Mahan (Nominated)


Review

It was a great comic book movie since IRON MAN was the first to start the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) out in theatres and released with The Incredible Hulk before the following year, Disney came to buy Marvel and its rights. Many comic-book fans were sceptical of this movie in its pre-release before it opened and regarded it as the MCU's best feature before The Avengers. The film was beginning to wear off its novelty. However, it is an excellent career choice for director Jon Favreau. He brought action and comedy with gusto before he tackled the semi-decent sequel of Iron Man 2 and the part animation/part live-action remake of The Jungle Book.

It was a terrific comeback for Robert Downey Jr., proving that he could take on the role of the billionaire playboy Tony Stark, who becomes the wearer of a metal suit with no need for metaphysical powers. He out-perfected the character as being himself as a little bit immature but deadpan and witty. DC's Batman/Bruce Wayne was better than Marvel's title character despite the both being similar in their wealth and technology and that he never revealed his true identity to the public or to any foe that might officially exploit it. Jeff Bridges was still a remarkable actor when portraying a villainous mentor like Obadiah Stane, who was affably evil and yet hid his true colours. He is the version of Lex Luthor that we never saw in Batman v Superman.

I sincerely enjoyed the film as I liked the style and visuals. I appreciated IRON MAN that it wasn't unnoticed for still being an extraordinary film to this date. It broke new ground for pre-released films from the MCU that came out in later years, like The Avengers, etc. Those who have seen the movie before will enjoy it with the other films in its order of continuity.

Star rating: (9/10) Excellent Movie

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