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...soars through the night sky, disrupts military aviation, wages holy war against those twin bastions of evil, terrorists and corporate bigwigs. He's Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), zillionaire industrialist, and he arrives accompanied by the POW!, BANG! and KA-BOOM! suitable for a movie based on a comic book, but with lots more intelligence than the genre usually demands. It's Iron Man to the rescue, yanking movies and the worldwide box office out of its months-long doldrums and into the stratosphere...
Mission isn't the space disaster its reviews suggest. It does dawdle over the astronauts' troubles on Earth, and the music smothers emotions it should underscore. One also wonders why an alien intelligence eager for interplanetary contact would kill off the first humans it encounters ("Sorry, wrong number"--ka-boom!). But the film hits its stride with a space-station jitterbug at zero gravity and a desperate stab at lassoing a bucking bronco of a resupply module in outer space. At the end there is real emotional grandeur in a meeting of minds across the galaxy. This...
Here's an idea for Speed II: terrorist wires teacher's copy of Hamlet. If he gets to the "Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I" soliloquy -- Ka-BOOM...
...than on justice. Director Sam Raimi, whose cheapo slasher film The Evil Dead achieved cult status, mines familiar comic-book terrain with a plucky heroine (Frances McDormand), a couple of corporate villains -- one slick (Colin Friels), the other slimy (Larry Drake) -- and plenty of explosive violence that virtually reads KA-BOOM! in block letters across the screen...
DARKMAN. Director Sam Raimi mines comic-book terrain with a plucky heroine, a couple of corporate villains and plenty of explosive violence that virtually reads KA-BOOM! in block letters across the screen...