Genre: Superhero
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don
Cheadle, Sam Rockwell
Running Time: 125 minutes
After revealing to the
world that he is indeed Iron Man, Tony Stark’s star is on the rise.
Unfortunately, superstardom makes him spin out of control. Justin Hammer, a
rival weapons manufacturer, recruits Ivan Vanko, a Russian physicist, to try to
ruin Stark’s legacy, so Iron Man will have to find his way again and spring
back into action.
What an uninspired
follow-up to the 2008 original. The story just seems to plod along,
painstakingly, until it is finally time for the denouement. Most of the cast
does okay, except maybe for Sam Rockwell and Mickey Rourke. Rockwell is usually
good, but his performance here is kind of flat. And I never really believed in
Rourke as a Russian bad guy. He does not even seem to believe it himself.
Overall, Iron Man 2
offers very few shining moments.
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