| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Interestingly politically-correct story of US hegemony faking solutions to political problems by military means. Yet, the terrorism shown here is too sophisticated to be defeated by pretend precision carpet bombing.
There is just enough humor to raise it above the usual cardboard superhero nonsense, primarily because of Robert DOWNEY’s delightfully undercutting his own role as a born again arm’s dealer. He effectively distracts us from the film’s fetishizing the very weapons’ it pretends to abhor. Gwyneth PALTROW is miscast in a role that Amy ADAMS would have attacked with greater relish and comedic skill.
The hippie dream of arms’ manufacturers turning their “swords into plowshares” is not taken too seriously as this never rises to the giddy heights of Batman Begins, Spiderman 2 or RoboCop, but it is all good clean fun nonetheless.
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