We watched Iron Man yesterday and left feeling good about it. I was expecting a WWII type of setting given that I knew about it when I was a child. It was a pleasant surprise to find that the story was transplanted into our modern day world which would relate better to the younger generation.
The protagonist’s change in attitude was told in a convincing manner. He started off as a cocky and over-confident man who believed that ‘there is peace as long as he has the bigger stick’ to the realization that his weapons were killing those he sought to protect.
His ability to escape was due to his engineering skills – it gave a feel-good effect and it certainly resonance with the engineers out there.
As he was perfecting his suit; it gave the impression that he was on his way to invincibility. I was beginning to wonder what surprise they could churn out to make us want to root for him. The story could well degenerate to what happened in X-Men evolution: The Origin of Wolverine. I remembered my son’s comment on the latest X-Men installment:
“How exciting it is to see an indestructible man grunting his way around?”
Iron Man outdid itself when it came up with a more powerful enemy in the form of his business partner who stole his technology and he had to fight with a his old and depleted power pack.
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