IRON MAN
In the latest movie adaptation from Marvel Comics’ arsenal of Cold War superheroes, Robert Downey Jr has a ball as Tony Stark, multimillionaire weapons industrialist and debonair playboy. Stark believes his weapons create a safer world with the US as the good cop until he’s taken hostage by terrorists and forced to build rockets for them. But Tony is too clever by far. He builds an iron suit and escapes, vowing only to use his powers for good. The only problem is that someone at Stark Industries is selling bombs to the wrong guys’ Never mind the hypocrisy and dodgy politics, Iron Man has everything else: a cocky hero, a leggy redhead (Gwyneth Paltrow), a sinister scientist (Jeff Bridges) and all the gadgets you could ask for. Great fun. (Lachlan Jobbins)
