Iron Man 2 Review

Iron Man 2

A review by Frederick Cholowski

A-

 

    Well it is here the 2^nd film in the marvel phenomenon called Iron Man. 2 years ago the first film shocked movie audiences with its pure awesomeness. Now we have the second film dose it live up to the fans big expectations? Well I'm glad to say it is on par with the last film witch is a big complement.

 

    The story of this film comes just 6 months after Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr) "I am Iron Man" revel to the public. Things seem to be going well. All except for one thing his blood is becoming more and more toxic. In other words the thing that is keeping him alive is killing him. Also he gave the position of CEO to his assistant Pepper Pots (Gwyneth Paltrow). Party is crashed though when Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) busts Toni's race car and reviles that Tony is not the only one with the palladium technology. Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell) the leader of the compeering company Hammer industries is interested and decides to put him to work to make Tony's model look like an antique.

 

    The whole plot is good but has issues, especially in the pacing department. The first part of the movie is great started with a hilarious court scene. There is good set up and the race car action scene is awesome. Then it slows down to a halt. It just gets boring after awhile and there are some parts that are setting up other movies (cough cough the avenger's movie) and it is well pointless. But than the last 30 minutes goes back to what an Iron Man film truly is. It's one big action scene and is totally awesome and makes you completely forget about the middle of the film.

 

    As for the action. Yes the meet and potatoes of this movie. There are some cool moments at the beginning than a very dry middle with only an average iron man to stolen iron man fight. Than the last 30 or so minutes it explodes to pure awesome action with lots of explosions. Nuf said.

 

    Robert Downey Jr and Sam Rockwell steal the movie. They are ying and yang. They are the only standouts in the movie and they play basically the same sort of characters but they are on opposite sides. They are both absolute jerks to (the characters not the actors) so it makes for a hilarious fun filled ride. Mickey Rourke is sort of there, Gwyneth Paltrogh is fine, and Scarlet Johansson as black widow is also just there as a attraction to immature people in there teens and twenties.

 

    Iron Man 2 is a fun awesome ride. Although the supposed bad guy is just there and the middle is dry, the combine powers of Sam Rockwell, Robert Downey Jr and the last 30 minutes make this film a worthy successor to the first and an awesome way to start off the summer.