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| By Stefan Blitz |
Produced by Kevin Feige
Screenplay by Drew Pearce, Shane Black
Based on Iron Man by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, Jack Kirby and Extremis by Warren Ellis, Adi Granov
Directed by Shane Black
Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth
Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak,
James Badge Dale, Jon Favreau, Ben Kingsley
Marvel Studios / Rated PG-13
There are few actors that have embraced a role so fully as Robert Downey Jr. and Tony Stark. And in his fifth big screen appearance as Stark (Yes, I'm counting his cameo in The Incredible Hulk), the character for the first time seems real.
Establishing the backstory in 1999 (with a clever cameo of Shaun Toub reprising his role as Ho Yinsen from the first film) and then jumping to the present, several months past the events of The Avengers, the film immediately establishes a very different Tony Stark.
Sleepless, obsessed, wrought with panic attacks, Stark is a changed man. Vulnerable for the first time onscreen, Stark is no longer the cocky asshole and instead is trying to make sense of his place and purpose.
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