I never watched Iron Man 1 because of my hectic schedule but this Tuesday I compromised going to gym after work and went to Sterland in Pretoria to watch the movie on a discount for only R8.00.
Moolah back in your pocket
As always, I went to Shoprite to buy my snacks which included Simba, roar with flavour, Mashmallows, 500 ml Cocacola and Jungle oats bar which all cost less than R25. The Sterkinekor snacks are expensive. I then put the snacks in my gym bag and took them out when I was inside = moolah saving tip people. This is in reply to an article written a while back about how to watch movies on a tight budget.
With rave reviews of this movie and the movie being everywhere and so much noise being made about it, I expected to see a 5 star classic movie but nope, for me it didn’t live up to the hype.
It must be noted though that Robert Downy Junior gives a good performance as Iron Man and he’s unquestionably, at least according to my observation, a brilliant actor. Samuel L Jackson also gives a great performance. My problem with the movie is lack of creativity and originality. The action is good and actors are brilliant but the originality people. I want to see something new!!!!!!!!!!
Once again, movie directors show that they lack originality and don’t even get me started on creativity. I could see some Superman ideas in the movie, the wand fighting definitely comes from Harry Potter and hai, I don’t know if Harry Potter author JK Rawling is smiling about her wand idea being used in other movies. I don’t know if she will sue because last time she sued a man who wrote a dictionary of the dark magic for Harry Potter fans who wanted to know about things like port key, avadra kadavra, accio, muggles, confundus, relashi (magical spells in Harry Potter).
Scarlet's beauty will mersmerise you while watching the movie and you will keep on asking for more of her
Scarlet Johansson stole the show and the spotlight should have shifted from Robert Downy to her. She plays a superwoman who is untouchable and can kill tsotsis who come in groups of more than 15 people, and she kills them perfect (yeah, remember street fighter R0.50c machine) without her being beaten or anything. The villain of the movie is ugly and was right for the character. The African-American lead actor Don Cheadle should have just stayed away from wearing Iron Man suits because all he did was just cause chaos and trouble for Iron Man’s power.
The guy on your top right is Don Cheadle
The theme I could get from the movie is that there is no enemy that you don’t know. The enemy always comes from your team as was the case when one of the actors in some twisted and deranged storyline works with Scarlet Johansson and Scarlet is big buddies with Robert/Iron Man. He hires the villain to help him take down Iron man but the villain ends up not following orders and deriving his revenge plot on Iron and wants to torture and finish Iron Man “in forty minutes than what his family did to him in forty years”. And boy oh boy, he nearly succeeds and he creates fake iron men killing machines and they kill innocent people and want to assassinate Iron Man’s “girlfriend”
This is a story that’s packed with action, humour (The court governor is very good at this one), love, drama, betrayal and plotting.
Samuel L Jackson has a role that's kind of cameo
Because of lack of originality and creativity, I give the movie 3 stars. However, it’s worth leaving your dirty clothes at home on Saturday and go watch it = you shall wash them on Sunday morning.
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