Iron Man 2, the most anticipated movie of the 2010 summer blockbuster season, has finally arrived. And it is so much more than anyone could have hoped for.
As the movie starts we see Tony Stark, aka Iron man, flying around the world in his suit just enjoying the hell out of himself. It’s been six months since the end of the first film, and he is basking in his celebrity and the general love shown to him by just about everybody.
The actors that are in Iron Man 2 are just great. Don Cheadle plays Lt. Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes, Stark’s good friend. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Stark’s assistant Pepper Potts, Sam Rockwell plays Tony’s arch enemy Justin Hammer (he is gives some of the movie’s best lines). Dependable Samuel L. Jackson plays Nick Fury, Comedian Garry Shandling plays Senator Stern, Mickey Rourke continues his astonishing comeback by playing the wildly entertaining villain Ivan Vanko, a Russian with a score to settle with Stark. And voluptuous Scarlett Johansson plays Natalie Rushman / Natasha Romanoff. That form-fitting suit that she wears in this movie will make all the men just die.
But as in Iron Man 1, it is the gifted Robert Downey Jr that drives the movie. Downey is generally considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. With jaw-dropping performances in movies like Chaplain and Natural Born Killers, he has established himself as an actor’s actor. These Iron Man movies are so superior to most other “comic book hero” movies because finally the studio put a great actor in the lead role.
The core plot of this movie is the desire of the Russian Ivan Vanko, a disfigured, tattooed giant, to exact revenge on Tony Stark for the sins of their fathers. Ivan is played perfectly by Mickey Rourke. After at least one botched facelift, Rourke probably didn’t need a lot of makeup to play this role. Ivan’s father was a brilliant Russian scientist who defected to the United States years ago. He was subsequently accused of espionage by Tony Stark’s father (unjustly it turned out) and was deported back to Russia. Once there he was thrown into one of the gulags and later died a broken, disgraced alcoholic. Ivan wants his pound of flesh, and as a brilliant scientist himself he is able to build himself a suit to challenge Tony. It is this revenge that makes up much of the movie.
The action sequences in this movie are even better than in the first. The scene everybody is talking about is the first seismic battle between Stark and Ivan at the Grand Prix in Monaco. It is here that Stark encounters Ivan and his intimidating electric whips and suit for the first time. Their fight among the speeding cars on the track is epic.
by: John Lee
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