GENRE: Action/Adventure
RATING: PG-13 for violence and some language
RUNTIME: 2 hours and 4 minutes
STARRING: Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder),
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Don Cheadle (Crash)
DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Elf, Made)
WRITER: Justin Theroux (Tropic Thunder)
PLOT: Tony Stark faces health issues, friend issues, trust issues and government issues now that everyone knows that he is Iron Man.
FIVE OBSERVATIONS:
1 I went in with pretty low expectations and left quite satisfied with what I saw. I enjoy the characters and snappy dialogue and didn’t even mind the slowed-down middle act. Not bad for a sequel.
2 Favreau needs a little help in the action-sequence department. Robots fighting each other are pretty boring. Robots flying after each other are pretty boring. Interesting how the best action sequence is Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow taking down numerous guards. And no, it’s not because of the skin-tight suit . . . well, let's just say that’s not the only reason.
3 This movie had much better bad guys than the first Iron Man. I hated Jeff Bridges, he was too predictable. Mickey Rourke did a fine job but the scene-stealer was the smarmy Sam Rockwell as Stark nemesis, Justin Hammer. He was fun to watch, but I didn’t understand why Rourke’s Vanko would not have killed Hammer instantly with his bare hands.
4 I wanted to see a bit more interaction between Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper Potts and Tony Stark. That was the factor that worked best for me in the first one. Pepper seemed a lot more disgruntled this time around.
5 Loved the small roles John Slattery and Garry Shandling brought to the film. Slattery put on his Mad Men best as Tony’s self-absorbed father and Shandling was fun to watch as a floundering US Senator.
RECOMMENDATION: Fun to watch in the theatres
UPCOMING REVIEWS: TV Season wrap-up
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