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(2008)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and brief suggestive content
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Sex & Nudity

  • Women flight attendants dance around a pole with their shirts tied up.
  • A sex scene between Tony and Reporter Christine Everhart.

Violence & Gore

  • Men with guns attack a village, people run into a building, they are chased and shot (we hear the gunshots), others are forced into a truck and the men are lined up against a wall to be shot and one man is struck and kicked while on the ground (the attack is interrupted before they are shot). Men with guns hold other men on the ground on their knees, they receive orders to "take care of things" and we hear gunshots (suggesting that all of the men were killed).
  • A wounded man goes to fight off enemies but never comes back and another man discovers him with blood on his chest and face dies. Two men open a cell door, it explodes and they are thrown and killed (we see their bodies).
  • A man in a metal suit picks up a car with a woman and children inside (they scream) and prepares to throw the car but does not, he grabs a motorcycle and flings it against a wall (throwing the driver off), and he is then thrown into a bus and the bus explodes (he is shot out and into the sky).
  • Someone falls into a reactor and causes an enormous explosion. A man wearing a metal suit is shot out of the sky by a rocket, crashes to the ground (he's OK), he then fires on the tank that fired at him and blows it up (we don't see anyone inside the tank). A man wearing a metal suit shoots and destroys many weapons causing large explosions.
  • A man in a metal suit flies through the air, is shadowed by two fighter jets, a rocket is fired at him, he blows up the rocket, clings to the belly of one plane, the plane spins trying to knock him off, he lets go, one plane crashes into him breaking its wing, the plane spins out of control, and the pilot ejects -- his parachute deploys just before it is too late.
  • A man in a metal suit is shot at repeatedly, he shoots a rocket at a man and it explodes behind him (we see the man later with a badly scarred face), shoots a flame thrower that ignites many men (we see men running in flames), as well as stockpiles of weapons, causing explosions.
  • A man in a metal suit shoots several men who hold people with guns to their heads (we see the men slump to the ground dead, there's no blood).
  • A man in a metal suit punches through a wall, pulls a man out through the hole and slams him to the ground (people standing around him move closer to him suggesting that they are going to attack him).
  • Two men in metal suits fight: one stomps on the chest of the other, one is thrown, one has cables yanked out of its mechanisms, one shoots at the other, and one threatens to kill the other.
  • We see a man thrashing and screaming during a surgical procedure, and we see bloody tissue being removed and a device being implanted.
  • A man regains consciousness and pulls a tube out of his nose (we hear squishing as it comes out) and he gags and coughs.
  • A man is rendered paralyzed and another man removes a device from his chest (he gasps and goes gray suggesting that he is dying). After a surgery a man discovers that a device has been implanted in his chest and that it is attached to a car battery (we see him carrying the battery around in several scenes).
  • Several men with guns enter a cell, one man is kicked across the room by a man in a metal suit, other men shoot at him, he kicks and punches them out of the way, breaks through a door, a man shoots at him at close range (the bullet ricochets and strikes him in the head, there's no blood).
  • Several men with guns enter a laboratory, they are each struck or thrown by a man in a metal suit, there is a large explosion, and the man in the metal suit breaks through the ground outside and holds a weapon on a woman.
  • A man is forced to his knees, his head is placed on a table and a red-hot coal is pushed near his face as a threat. A man's head is forced under water several times as a form of punishment and his head is placed in a burlap bag in a later scene. We see a man with a bloody face tied to a chair and men with guns stand around him. We see photos of dead human and animal bodies after an attack.
  • A man wearing a metal suit flies high into the atmosphere, ice forms on the metal, the flying mechanism fails, he falls toward the ground and nearly crashes onto a busy street.
  • A man wearing a metal suit flies into the air, the propulsion mechanism sputters, and he falls back to the ground and crashes into sand (we see the suit in pieces and he has some blood on his face and arm).
  • A man testing jet propulsion boots is flipped through the air and slams into a wall (we see him with a few abrasions on his face later). A man tests out a flight stabilizer and is thrown back from the blast. When a man in a metal suit lands on his roof, he breaks through the roof, then the floor of the first floor and then onto a car parked on the bottom floor (sirens blare).
  • A man uses a device that makes a high-pitched whistle to incapacitate a man (we see the man's veins on his face protrude through the skin and he goes limp). Two men being held hostage stand and raise their hands in the air when their captors with guns enter and threaten them.
  • During a weapon demonstration, a rocket is launched, it spurts smaller explosives and when they strike the ground there is an enormous explosion that blows a wave of dust and a gust of wind into people that are gathered to watch.
  • A missile lands on the ground next to Stark and explodes it isn't seen but it is implied that sharple from the missile punctures his heart and he is required to wear a device in is chest to survive, and he is struck and thrown to the ground. Blood seeps through his shirt and there is blood on his face.
  • A man has a metal cylinder in his chest (we see inside the metal; there's no blood or body matter), he tells a woman to reach inside it and pull out a wire, she does (we hear squishing and she complains that it is filled with pus and that it smells, we hear a zap and the man twitches), she puts another device in the cylinder and the man is jolted; she pulls her hand out and we see slime on her hand.
  • Many intense action sequences: a shooting sequence, a fight scene with shooting and fire, Iron Man flying around punching HARD, Iron Man blasting, an intense dogfight, and a fist fight with the primary antagonist.

Profanity

  • Light profanity
  • 2 uses of bitch
  • There are scattered uses of "damn," "hell" and "bitch"; one use each of "prick" and the shortened "BS."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Tony Stark is seen using alcohol in many scenes of the movie.
  • Many people drink alcohol at a party, two men drink sake and appear drunk later, a man drinks alcohol, three flight attendants hold glasses of champagne while dancing, and a man drinks alcohol while riding in a military vehicle. A man puffs on a cigar (no smoke is evident), and a man smokes a pipe.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some of the terrorist scenes could be considered scary or intense.
  • After Iron Man accidentally damages a fighter jet and forces the pilot to eject, his parachute fails to deploy. For a few seconds, the pilot is in free fall in danger of being killed on impact with the ground. However, Iron Man is able to pursue the falling pilot and get the parachute open.
  • A man uses a device on another man that create sonic sound waves that destroy your eardrums and cause short term paralysis. His left side of his face starts to turn red. A couple seconds later it is full blood red and his veins in his head are blue and the veins appear to be bulging out. This unexpectedly happens to another character later on.
  • The opening shootout sequence is very intense, as well as when Stark wakes up surrounded by terrorists at gunpoint.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • In the desert of Afganistan, soldiers get out of their military vehicles and are shot, then screaming is heard.
  • Stark is briefly seen thrashing and screaming in pain as bloody tissue is removed and an electromagnetic battery is being surgically implanted.
  • Stark later regains consciousness and pulls a long tube out of his nose (we hear squishing as it comes out) but this is done in a comical fashion.
  • The doctor/translator Ho Yinshen is tortured/threatened with a glowing coal that is held very close to his eye.
  • Several scenes of shooting, there is one scene where citizens are lined up for execution and a man is taken away from his family he struggles but is thrown to the ground and kicked in the chest the terrorist leader then orders him to be executed but Iron Man Intervenes just in time. Iron Man then shoots all the soldiers, including one hostage situation, which is resolved with special shoulder weapons that can each individually target each soldier and kill them before any of them can react against hostages.
  • Iron Man is attacked by two US Air Force fighters, which he tries to elude without counterattacking. However, when he is thrown off after being discovered hiding on the underbelly of one of the fighters, he accidentally collides with the other and critically damages it, forcing the pilot to eject.
  • In one scene Obadiah has group of terrorists lined up at gunpoint by U.S. soldiers he walks offscreen then there are several flashes behind him and gun shots are heard (do the math).

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