"...I saw that I had become part of a system that is comfortable with zero-accountability."
Boy genius Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has become an adult and finally takes over the industrial arms manufacturing company his deceased father had built. He's also become a super rich, wise-cracking, playboy.
His gal Friday Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is exasperated as she tries to keep him on task. Rhodey (Terrence Howard) is Stark's old friend and a military officer who escorts Stark to displays of Stark Industries missles.
After one such display, Stark's Hum-Vee is blown up and he's patched back together by the mysterious Yinsen (Shaun Toub) who must develop a mechanism that keep Stark alive. In the midst of all this, Stark is being forced by his Middle Eastern captors to create a powerful missle for them.
After Yinsen is killed by the captors and Stark escapes, he decides to turn Stark International from a weapons industy into an industy to create good. And the start of this is to create sophisticated technology to replace the make-shift device that Yinsen created to keep Stark alive in captivity. The new technology also leads Stark to develop an iron suit which gives him super human abilities.
Jeff Bridges (barely recognizable in this role) is the evil Obadiah Stane, a company executive who is double dealing under the table. Stark must go into stealth mode to rectify the situation.
Bill Smitrovich as General Gabriel, Jon Favreau as the chauffer Hogan, Peter Billingsley as William Ginter Riva, and Samuel L. Jackson in an uncredit role as Nick Fury.
Directed by Jon Favreau.
Run time: 2 hour, 6 minutes
Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content.
My personal rating: B
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