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One of the drawbacks of Jon Favreau’s hugely enjoyable superhero flick was that, because Robert Downey Jr. was so goddamn charismatic as Tony Stark, that Iron Man himself seemed lame by comparison. But not in the scene where he travels to Afghanistan and opens a can of whoop-ass on the local terrorists, like Charlie Bronson with sat-nav. Uh-oh, we think, when a tank rolls up behind Ol’ Shellhead and lets off a round. But Iron Man nimbly sidesteps it, and in the same move fires off an arm-mounted missile (memo: must get one of those) with a ‘bitch, please!’ insouciance, and then walks away while the tank explodes in the background. And for a brief second, it’s Robert Downey who?
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