• Iron Man (2008)

    A billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), is conducting weapons tests overseas, but terrorists kidnap him to force him to build a devastating weapon. Instead, he builds an armored suit and upends his captors. Returning to America, Stark refines the suit and uses it to combat crime and terrorism.

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Iron Man
79
metacriticBased on 38 Critics
85
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Release Date: May 2nd, 2008

DVD Release Date: September 30th, 2008

PG-13 |2 hr 6 min

Plot Summary

A billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), is conducting weapons tests overseas, but terrorists kidnap him to force him to build a devastating weapon. Instead, he builds an armored suit and upends his captors. Returning to America, Stark refines the suit and uses it to combat crime and terrorism.

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir, Leslie Bibb, Sayed Badreya

Director: Jon Favreau

Genres: Action , Science Fiction , Fantasy , Adventure

Production Co: Paramount, Marvel Enterprises

Distributors: Paramount Pictures

Keywords: Quest, Amusing, Intense, Escape, 2000s, Transformation, Soldier, Rivalry

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  • 100
    Roger EbertChicago Sun-Times

    You 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. show more

  • 88
    Peter TraversRolling Stone

    All praise to acting dynamo Robert Downey Jr., who brings so much creative juice to the party that Iron Man achieves instant liftoff. show more

  • 90
    Kirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood Reporter

    Downey plays off his own bad-boy image wonderfully. The writers give him great lines to work with and ditto that for his Girl Friday, Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts, whose own svelte lines cannot be improved on. show more

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Awards

Nominated Sound Editing
Oscars Academy Awards (2008)
Nominated Special Visual Effects
British Academy of Film & Television Arts (2009)
Nominated Visual Effects
Oscars Academy Awards (2008)
Nominated Outstanding Action Performance By a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009)