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Iron Man (2008)


Rating: 6.7/10 Rated: PG-13
Theatrical Release: May 2, 2008


Wide Synopsis:
An adaptation of Marvel's comic book series about billionaire weapons maker Tony Stark who dons a suit of armor to fight the people who misuses his technology. [More]
An adaptation of Marvel's comic book series about billionaire weapons maker Tony Stark who dons a suit of armor to fight the people who misuses his technology. [Less]
Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Robert Downey, Jeff Bridges, Terrence Howard, Shaun Toub, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: Jon Favreau
Screenwriter: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matthew Holloway
Producer: Avi Arad, Kevin Feige

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Forbidden Kingdom, The
A Movie Review by James Berardinelli
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ACTION/ADVENTURE
United States, 2008
U.S. Release Date: 4/18/08
Running Length: 1:50
MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Violence)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Cast: Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Michael Angarano, Yifei Liu, Bingbing Li, Collin Chou
Director: Rob Minkoff
Screenplay: John Fusco
Cinematography: Peter Pau
Music: David Buckley
U.S. Distributor: Lionsgate
In English and Mandarin with subtitles

All fanboys have their dream teams. Forget Obama and Clinton. How about Superman and Spider-Man? (Comic book fans salivated when DC and Marvel combined in the '70s for this super-sized team-up.) Or Schwarzenegger and Stallone? (This was an often-rumored pairing in the late '80s and early '90s than never came to fruition.) Or Dumbledore and Gandalf? (It's advised to never say never, but in this case…) For kung fu fans, the coupling most yearned for (at least recently) has been Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The Forbidden Kingdom brings them together for the first time and, while both are a little past their respective "sell by" dates, there's enough physicality left to provide an approximation of what might have been ten or fifteen years ago. For martial arts action fans, The Forbidden Kingdom may be the best fantasy story since the genre was opened to a wider audience by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

The Forbidden Kingdom opens not in some distant land but in the bedroom of Jason (Michael Angarano), a friendless high school boy who loves kung fu movies. His favorite place to go is a pawn shop in Chinatown, where he looks for used genre DVDs that he doesn't already own. One day, a local gang bullies him into forcing the owner of the pawn shop to open late for Jason. In the ensuing struggle, the owner is shot and Jason finds himself in possession of a talisman that transports him to a mystical version of ancient China where characters of myth and legend walk the Earth. It may not be Oz, but Jason sure isn't in Kansas, either.

He's almost immediately in trouble, since the staff he carries belongs to the Monkey King (Jet Li), who needs it back to defeat the Jade Warlord (Collin Chou). Needless to say, the Jade Warlord doesn't want Jason to deliver the staff, so he sends out his soldiers to intercept it. Coming to Jason's rescue is Lu Yan (Jackie Chan), a mysterious drunk who seems anything but inebriated when he goes into battle. They are joined by the taciturn Golden Sparrow (Yifei Liu), who refers to herself in the third person, and the Silent Monk (Jet Li), whose life is devoted to delivering the talisman to the Monkey King. Thus begins a journey that ends in a battle royale.

When Jet Li and Jackie Chan trade blows, it's hard to determine how much is real, how much is the work of stunt doubles, and where wires and CGI are employed. Once upon a time, Chan did all his own stunts but he's in his mid-50s now and his body is no longer capable of enduring the punishment it once absorbed. Li is younger by about ten years but he has never been shy about using cinematic trickery to enhance his considerable skills. Credit director Rob Minkoff for filming the confrontation as if these two were once again in their primes. It's an energetic battle and it lasts long enough to savor. After they fight it out, Lu Yan and the Silent Monk join forces so the rest of their struggles are alongside one another.

The Forbidden Kingdom contains plenty of action, including scenes where our heroes must face a seemingly endless stream of soldiers that get punched, kicked, and tossed in all directions. Even the younger actors - Michael Angarano and Yifei Liu - get an opportunity to do some thumping and ass-kicking. In fact, this is very much a coming of age tale for Angarano's Jason, who leaves this world as a shy kid with no self-respect and returns as someone who has found inner strength and peace. Those who enjoyed the fantasy elements of films like Crouching Tiger will appreciate the setting here. The world that Jason visits in The Forbidden Kingdom is a fusion of Middle Earth and feudal China. There's magic and mayhem and CGI to go along with the kung fu.

The filmmakers recognize the preposterousness of the scenario so they avoid the pitfall of keeping the tone too serious. As a result, the movie feels more like one of Chan's pictures than Li's in the way it incorporates comedy, although Li proves to be a good sport and goes along for the ride. Several scenes are played specifically for laughs, including those where Jason undergoes his obligatory kung fu training. There's also a hilarious punch-line to the sequence in which Lu Yan attempts to summon rain. As The Forbidden Kingdom reaches its climax, Minkoff adopts a slightly more staid mood, but it's nothing that diminishes the overall entertainment value. The Forbidden Kingdom is for those who like plenty of kung fu action with an epic fantasy setting and a little humor thrown in. When all is said and done, the dream team combination of Chan and Li is just a nice bonus.

nindot daw ingon zkunks ang forbidden kingdom pero la pa ko ka tan-aw...

akong tan-awon ironman, nindot?

ako ingnan zkunks nga tan-aw jud cya kay nindot jud ang movie
di ka magbasol

really? so unahaon sa nako tan-aw forbidden kingdom before ironman..

may pa
as in panagsaon ra kaau si jackie chan ug si jet lee mag kuyog sa usa ka movie
kuyaw kay ako mga uncles noh
hehehe

Both are very nice movies to watch but for me IRON MAN is way cooler!

hmmmm
unsa man jud ya genre?
comedy or action?

bitaw bitaw..
naa gasulti, dli daw kaau dghan action..
kargado dw comedy..so im thinking if its
and action/adv movie or comedy? hehehe

Both are action packed with cool punch lines..check nalang ninyo.. di mo magmahay

sige beh sige beh
tan-awn ta na beh

IRON MAN
by John P. McCarthy

The summer movie season launches with a sophisticated superhero movie that doesn't pander to the sensibility usually associated with the genre. The downside: Iron Man doesn't exhilarate or take hold of the imagination. More emphasis is placed on character than action, a probable -- though not inevitable or uniformly positive -- result of casting Robert Downey, Jr. as playboy industrialist Tony Stark. Personality and effects-driven wows aren't mutually exclusive of course. Yet by tipping toward the former, this rendering of the Marvel Comic introduced in 1963 remains a tad dry. The dumb teenager in me was grateful he wasn't being talked down to, but he wasn't blown away either.

Possessing Dick Cheney's political outlook, Hugh Hefner's lifestyle and knack for self-promotion, Bill Gates' ruthless entrepreneurial spirit, and the scientific and engineering prowess of an MIT professor, arms merchant Stark is considered by his detractors to be the biggest mass murderer in U.S. history. A suavely avaricious, hard-partying bachelor billionaire -- orphaned like his fellows Peter Parker and Bruce Wayne -- he invents and then supplies the world with weapons.

In the opening scene, we see the Scotch-on-the-rocks he's holding before we glimpse Stark riding in a US military Humvee in Afghanistan. He's there to unveil Stark Industry's latest creation, the Jericho missile; and as he's teasing the admiring soldiers escorting him, we know the light, jocular atmosphere will soon be interrupted. What we don't realize is that it will never be dispelled entirely.

The convoy is attacked and Stark severely wounded. He wakes up in a cave with a car battery connected to a hole in his chest. According to the Afghani physician (Shaun Toub) who saved his life, it will prevent the shrapnel discharged by one of his own bombs from traveling to his heart. When the terrorists holding them order Stark to make missiles, he builds a mini nuclear reactor to replace the device the doctor has rigged up. This neat piece of technology will keep him alive and lead to the birth of Iron Man.

Instead of a conventional missile, Stark and the doctor construct an armored suit that enables him to escape after three months in captivity. The experience triggers an epiphany. Much to the chagrin of his business associate Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges), Stark devotes himself to promoting peace and leaving an honorable personal legacy. This puts Stark Industries at risk and eventually entails destroying some of his own weaponry in the field.

Becoming the do-gooder in the diving bell does enhance Stark's stature in the eyes of his priggishly loyal assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). And he suddenly realizes that she's fetching in more ways than one. It's not clear who is more enamored of Stark, his leggy major domo or his admiring friend and liaison to the U.S. Military, an Air Force officer named Rhodey (Terrence Howard).

As Stark subverts the efforts of his company, one of the coziest relationships in the history of the military industrial complex is threatened. Rhodey doesn't seem to mind, for now at least. His dormant jealously might be incorporated into subsequent scenarios (and may already have been, since many drafts of the sequel must already exist). The overtly priapic essence of this and every other superhero saga is upheld when Stark faces off against his mentor Stane. Casting Bridges, who looks like a textbook Mephistopheles with a bald pate and bushy beard, heightens the sense Iron Man is more about character development than special effects.

Downey acquits himself well enough during the action sequences, there just aren't enough of them and the existing ones could use a boost. There's a relatively dull middle stretch of thirty minutes or so when Stark is hunkered down in his Malibu pad perfecting his invention. The climactic clash of the Gigantors Stark and Stane is a bit skimpy.

Few actors can exude as much distinctive personality, vocally or physically, while hidden beneath a suit of gold titanium alloy. Downey's offhand charm and wry, understated delivery (particularly in the banter between Stark and Pepper and the computers that assist him) are enjoyable and certainly unusual in this domain. Yet it's unclear how far this energy can propel the franchise.

Tony Stark is heroic because of what he stops doing more than for what he actually does over the course of the movie. The resulting imbalance suggests the filmmakers are biding time until the second installment. There's a difference between overdoing the special effects and enjoying them. To the movie's benefit and detriment, director Jon Favreau and company have more fun with the man than the machine.

(Released by Paramount Pictures and rated "PG-13" for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, brief suggestive content.)

rakizta, request beh..
pwede i summarize nimo?

kapuyan basa zkunks
hahahah

hahaha i think i enjoyed forbidden kingdom a lot, big fan of kung fu movies...
dba rakizta? hahahahaha.. i watched it again , i never told you!


iron man was cool as well... i was just a bit tipsy when i watched that...movie yesterday,
rakizta can prove it hahah...


anyweiz best movies of the year for me!!!

tarzan x - 9/10 -- da best ang climax ani.. hehehe

guys, i've watched the movie IRONMAN...
cool movie, a very nice movie...
a movie you don't wanna miss...
dili jud sayang mo money ani nga movie...
action movie with some comedy lines...
hehehe

zkunks, nice jud ang movie as in...

hehehe., rakizta..i just watched it today!
yah, it was nice...i was expecting a load of action, but impressive ra gihapon!
ur penny is worth d movie! favorite part nako katong naa xia sa cave, den na stuck iya kamot sa bato, den naa ni dul.it ug pusil sa iya ulo den nibanda ang bala! hehehe, dat was sick stupid!

actually, the movie was more focused on building the armor but feel nako naa part 2 hopefully

yah, obviously, naa jud! ni tunga kalit sa samuel jackson sa last part!...hehehe

mao gani nya ang movie itself, murag introduction ra man gud cya sa armor wala pa kaau maexpose ba ug maau
hehehe

korek! so d juicy+action part wud be on d sequel maybe... hehehe

and ako jud nang atngan...kay for sure movie that we don't wanna miss nasad na

yah! same here...
but, im looking forward for hellboy2!

waaaaaaaaah, daghanang i-look forward na movie woi

Coming this August Guyz!

for sure ni carcrazh?

amo gicheck ni simply ang www.imdb.com and naa jud ang movie

another must-see movie nasad ni

hahaha.. dli lage ko tuho.an sa akong gipost! tsk! hehe..

tinuod ni ang the mummy 3 rakizta woi. hehe.. must see movie jud nya naa pa jud c Jet Li. hehe..

churi gud

nakit-an nako name jet li mao na nagdoubt ko pero pagcheck sa site, naa man jud

churi boss carcrazh

haha.. no worries.. im sure nice jud na nga movie. hehe.. then naa pa jud hellboy2 and batman.. waaaah! mahala baya sa movies dri woi.

hala!!! perpekon nato QA ani beh para daghan ta movie tickets....

those movies are must-see movies...

di jud dapat palagpasan labi na hellboy 2

mao jed rakizta! must see movies! hehe..
hala cge perpeka na imong QA.

abi nako di na magmovie si jet li?

wow! PARANG NICE NA MOVIE YAN carcrazh..
anticipated movie na sad ni for movie freaks....

maybe we can go together watching movies then let's post our reviews! eheheh

we can movie tickets from sykes peeps.. esp from accenture account..

i believe they have a lot of movie tickets...


hehehehe

am i correct??

wahahahahaahah.. i guess so? hahahaha

naa lage ko tulo ka ticket nag expire nalang! paksyet! heheheheh


are you sykes ??? cge mag participate ta tanan na kadramahan sa floor then perpekon ang QA!!! kadawat jed tickets ! hehe

share ur tickets wui.....

hehehehe!

*carcrazh... amo! paytera ana oi! naa akong paborito! jetli...sssssheet!

*rakizta, where did u heard/read nga dli na mag movie c jet li?

nindot lagi na ang mummy 3...

feeling nako ang sequel sa ironman kay avengers...murag gi invite man jud cya ni samuel jackson to join a group...nya ang group ni ironman as far as i know sa marvel is avengers....

murag mao pd ako duda hinu...
mahibaw.an ra nya nato nah! hehehe

chix wrote:

share ur tickets wui.....

hehehehe!

hmmmmmmm... mag tarong ko if i get it i'll let you know! waheheheh

if i know daghan ticket mo.. mamigay ka naman?.....


rakizta: na mention bitaw nimo na dili na mag make movie si jet li????

any sources???

@zkunks.. Paytir lage na nga movie mo! hehe.. i also heard nga they are planning to make a movie about wolverine. tsk! but i dont really have the details jud.

@rakizta.. yah asa ka kuha ana nga news rakizta? hehe..

i kinda forgot who my source was pero it was just mention all of a sudden na after his movie with jackie chan, forbidden kingdom, he's gonna stop doing movies daw

pero i know my source is not reliable...

haha.. so dli diay reliable imong source rakizta? whew! thank God kay nahan pako motan.aw ug movies nga naa c jet li.

kahibaw mo unsa ni nga upcoming movie guyz? coming out 2009 pa nuon.

haha! GI Joe geng! payter pd ning hinampak!

about atong wolverine d movie mo! cge ko search about it, as far as i know, c hugh jackman gihapon bida coz he kinda got obsessed wid d character, juz like me... but i havent heard nga apil c jetli sa casting... hmmm....


rakizta, gud thing unreliable imo source... hehehe
wala pa raba ko kita sa movie ni jetli nga "warlords" ...