Marvel's Invincible Iron Man (Unlimited)

Iron Man is a 2007 superhero film, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Jon Favreau, with the screenplay done by Cristopher Markus & Stephen McFeely and Joss Whedon.

The film is based on the Iron Man comics, most notably Earth-616, Earth-199673, and Earth-19999.

Cast
Many other actors appear, such as Stan Lee (reprising himself) and Edward Nortan as Bruce Banner. Jeff Bridges also appears in the film, reprising Obadiah Stane
 * Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark/Iron Man: CEO of Stark Industries and the weapons manufacturer for the US military, Tony Stark is also a world famous industrialist, inventor, and playboy. Jon Favreau had chosen Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark after seeing his performance in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and the actor had an office next to his allowing for Robert Downey Jr to help the pre-production.
 * Don Cheadle as James "Rhodey" Rhodes: Officer of the US Air Force and Stark's best friend. Don Cheadle was chosen for the role over Terrence Howard, the former being a comic book fan.
 * Gwyenth Paltrow as Pepper Potts: Personal assistant of Stark, and budding love interest. Gwyenth had requested for comics to be sent so she could build a stronger sense of the character.
 * Ben Kingsley as Mandarin: Mandarin is the leader of the Ten Rings, a terrorist group. Upon finding the Ten Rings which his group was named after, he sought to get revenge on Tony Stark who had blown up his base and refused to make the Jericho missile. After the events of the movie, he studies Iron Man. Ben Kingsley expressed interest in playing Mandarin, and decided to give a unique take on the character while not being too controversial.
 * Shaun Toub as Ho Yinsen: Ho Yinsen is Tony Stark's idol, awing at his inventions. He's a captive along with Stark who helps create an electromagnet for his chest, preventing the shrapnel shards from reaching his heart and killing him.

Plot
Billionaire Tony Stark is in Afghanistan with his friend, Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, inspecting a Gamma Bomb by one of his other friends, Bruce Banner. General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross hires Tony to examine Banner's bomb, which has an increased shielding. Stark reveals he and Rhodes came to show off their new "Jericho" missile to him.

He shows it off, and afterwards the convoy is trapped and he is hit by his own manufactured rocket-propelled grenade. Stark is then kidnapped and imprisoned in a cave along with a doctor named Ho Yinsen, by the terrorist group; the Ten Rings. Yinsen implants an electromagnet into Stark's chest to prevent the shrapnel shards from making contact with his heart. The Ten Rings leader, Raza, appears and demands a Jericho missile in return for Stark and Yinsen's captivity. Stark and Yinsen don't believe them, but pretend to work on the missile and instead work on an arc reactor and an armoured suit for Stark.

The Ten Rings discover the two's plans and attempt to kill both of them, but Yinsen sacrifices himself for Stark who gets away. Shocked at what had happened, Stark battles his way through the cave in this new armour. He burns the Ten Rings' weapons before Rhodes picks him up in a jet.

The scene cuts to Mandarin in the desert, nearing his death. He finds a hidden ruin with a ship, and sees ten rings. His health had increased along with his strength and other traits, and finds out that Tony Stark escaped from the Ten Rings and blowed up parts of the cave.

Stark returns home and announces that Stark Industries will no longer make weapons after the previous events happened, Obadiah Stane advises Stark not to as it'll ruin his father's reputation but Stark ignores him. He goes off to build a better, more powerful armour and a sleeker arc reactor while Pepper Potts places away his old arc reactor. Despite Stane's requests, Stark hides his business from him.

In the middle of a charity event, a reporter tells Tony Stark that his Jericho missile was sold to the terrorist group along with other technology much to his surprise. A giant robot then starts destroying the city, crushing buildings, while Tony gets into his new armour: the Mark II. Tony tries to fight the robot, named Ultimo, but his armour almost gets destroyed in the process and he's forced to call Rhodes and give away his identity to him in order to be saved.

Rhodes holds Ultimo off while Stark is creating an armour, and Rhodes' ship gets destroyed and he's injuried badly. Tony dives off of Starks Industries' building and suits up while falling, flying to Ultimo and battling him. Ultimo nearly defeats Stark when his arc reactor starts to react and power up his armour, creating a much more powerful blast that destroys Ultimo.

Mandarin is watching the fight in his base, slowly basking into the shadows along with the other members of the Ten Rings.

Tony Stark falls to the ground after the fight, and reporters help him up and interview him. They ask for his identity, and he takes off his mask to reveal he's Tony Stark, before shouting "I AM IRON MAN!".

Post-Credits Scene
Stark plops onto his couch when Nick Fury appears next to his TV. Nick Fury states that he's not the only superhero, before turning on the TV to show live footage of a Gamma Bomb going off. He then talks about the "Avengers Initiative".

Box Office
Iron Man earned 321.4$ million in North America and 264.6$ million in other parts of the world, earning a worldwide gross of 568$ million.

Critical Response
The review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes had given a 95% approval rating with an average of 7.9/10 based on 297 reviews. The website's consensus reports, "Jon Favreau has directed an amazing movie, with Robert Downey Jr. starring in this action-packed superhero movie that even non-comic fans can enjoy.".

Todd McCarthy of Variety noted, "The film was engaging with its entertaining special effects, and is worth watching,", along with, "The worldbuilding and continuity starts off strong, with Bruce Banner appearing and a hint of the Hulk.".

<p style="font-weight:normal;">There were many positive reviews over the movie, though there were also a few lukewarm to bad scores, most notably one from IGN; "The special effects were well done, but the first half of the movie acts as a depressing military thriller while the second half a cheesy superhero movie."

Iron Man 2
Jon Favreau had expressed interest in directing a sequel after the success of the film, and Joss Whedon wanted to direct a film for the series along with Favreau. Favreau had then gone to say that Marvel had intentions of making a sequel somewhere down the line.

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