Ryan's Rating: 6/10
Director: Jon Favreau
Writer: Justin Theroux
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson
Genre: Action, Adventure, SciFi, Comics
Iron Man 2 is the aptly named sequel to Iron Man. In this continuation, Tony Stark with his Iron Man suit is a world-wide celebrity, but the US Congress wants the suit turned over for the military. Tony protects his company with the help of Pepper Potts even though the Iron Man suit is slowly killing him and to top it all off a new enemy has emerged creating his own super-suit.
Iron Man 2 was surprisingly boring after the fun and exciting original. The movie falls short because the film does not have a well-developed antagonist. Essentially, the villan is a guy who has a suit just like Iron Man but without a real cohesive motivation to take down Tony Stark and Iron Man. There are too many things going on in this movie but none of them are very interesting. Sam Rockwell does an excellent job channelling Dana Carvey for the character of Justin Hammer. The acting in well done and the action is ok, but the story is completely lacking. Just like so many comic book movies, the story goes in too many directions with too many characters and falls short of being a cohesive, interesting film.
Stay after the credits to catch every moment of the film, but if you didn't stay, you're not missing much.
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