Iron Man 2

I wanted to like Iron Man 2. I really did. I liked the first one and had pretty high hopes for its sequel. And after a mildly stressful week, I just wanted to kick back and enjoy the movie. Sadly, Iron Man 2 was not the movie for me.

The movie was too slow (especially the first 30 minutes). The characters needed more development (I mean, San Rockwell as Justin Hammer and Mickey Rourke as Ivan Vanko, couldn’t portray the villains as menacing as they could’ve been). And, more importantly, the fight scenes were totally lame (after one hit Vanko goes down…what’s up with that?). The only redeeming quality of the movie was watching Tony Stark toying around in his home laboratory…yup that was about it. All the cool flares that were in the first Iron Man movie were sadly lacking in the second one. Of course, Tony Stark is still the arrogant badass that I loved from the first movie…but that in and of itself couldn’t carry the movie. Although, it did help that Natalie Rushman/Natasha Romanoff, played by Scarlett Johansson, was pretty badass, so that was cool.

So that was that. Aside from the idiots smoking in the back of the theater and the lovebirds talking and making out in the row in front of us…it was surprising that I could concentrate on the movie at all. :-/