
But in the megahit Iron Man 3, the dazzling rescue scene looks so eerily believable-especially in 3D-that it got us wondering. In a superhero movie, you expect fanciful action. , aka Tony Stark (the raffish Robert Downey Jr.), appears, like a high-tech cavalry of one-and thus begins a heart-stopping rescue sequence in which the hero zips through the sky, daisy-chaining the falling passengers together and depositing them safely in the calm waters off Miami, all in less than 2 minutes of screen time. The pressure differential blows 13 people out of the aircraft.


A terrorist blows a hole in the side of Air Force One, near the back of the plane.
