Antman starts with Dr Hank Pym meeting with Howard Stark to tell him that he will not be allowed to use his invention the Pym particle. The movie then moves to the present day and Scott Lang is just getting out of jail he is met by his old cellmate luis who picks him up outside of prison where he explains to him that he will not be going back to a life of crime. Scott tries to get a few jobs and has no success he is also fired from Baskin Robbins for lying about going to jail. After he is fired he goes back to luis’ apartment and luis introduces him to some of his friends who can help him with a robbery. The scene then changes to a now old Hank Pym going to his company Pymtech to watch his young prodigy Darren Cross show off his new invention the YellowJacket which is Cross’ version of the Antman suit. We then find out that Scott has a daughter and his ex wife tells him he can’t see her until he sorts his life out. Scott then gets back to luis’ place and decides to rob Pym’s house so he can get some money to see his daughter.
During the robbery he gets to the safe he’s supposed to break into he gets past the first lock which is a fingerprint scanner, he then gets to the next safe and opens it with nitrogen. Once inside he finds the Antman suit. Scott takes takes the suit home and gets changed into it he then presses the button, he shrinks down and has all kinds of problems getting out of danger. Pym talks to him over the headset and tells him to keep the suit and he would be in touch. Scott ignores him and gets arrested whilst in a jail cell Pym sends Scott the suit so he can escape jail. After Scott gets out of jail he wakes up in Dr Pym’s house where they explain that they want him to be Antman and stop Cross from getting his hands on the Pym particle and be able to shrink himself down. Scott then starts his training for his mission as Antman.
Scott now just about ready for his mission gets his army of ants ready and goes to steal something from the Avengers facility in New York where he is met by the Falcon. Him and Falcon have a fight but Scott gets inside of Falcon’s wing pack and gets the tech. He gets back to Pym’s house and finds out that Cross is updating his security so they employ luis and his friends to help with the break in. Scott then manages to get into Pymtech via the water mains. While inside Scott frys all of Cross’ servers so the only thing that Cross has that can shrink is his YellowJacket suit. Cross gets away with the suit so Scott puts up a chase. Cross puts on his YellowJacket suit fitted with lasers and the two of them have a battle in Tiny form. the battle carries onto Scott’s daughters bedroom where they have a fight on a Thomas the tank engine train set. Scott end’s up beating Cross by shrinking between the molecules of his suit but he doesnt think he can come back from that until he puts a grow disc into his suit and growing out of the quantum realm. The movie ends with Scott and Hank’s daughter Hope getting into a relationship and him getting to spend time with his daughter.
overall i would give this movie a 6/10
