DDOY Review: Iron Man 2
Comments (0) Because I am in no way a professional film critic, I’ll just put it out there … Iron Man 2 was enjoyable as hell. I’ll admit that I became a little nervous when the reviews started to come out and they weren’t overwhelmingly positive. A number of the reviews indicated that there were so many characters that it was heading into Spider Man 3 territory (which is not good). ‘
Understandably, the Internet becomes my worse enemy in times like these. However despite their best efforts, there was no way I wasn’t seeing Iron Man 2 opening night. From here on out it may get mildly SPOILERISH ….
Iron Man 2 picks up relatively soon after Tony Stark makes his announcement to the world that he is in fact Iron Man. In the next 2 1/2 hours you begin to get a taste of the greater Marvel Universe and how Tony Stark/Iron Man plays into it. Comic readers will see call backs to very important Iron Man story arcs like the Armor Wars and a hint of Demon In A Bottle.
Some may argue that the inclusion of the Black Widow was needless or that the final battle in which Iron Man and War Machine take on Whiplash is anti-climatic. When you think of truly excellent comic book franchises the sequels have been significantly better: such as Spider Man 2, X2: X Men United, and The Dark Knight. Does Iron Man 2 belong on that list … I believe it does. It delivered exactly what I wanted, some great heavy metal action, the introduction of War Machine … and oh yeah SUITCASE FUCKING ARMOR.
There is one gripe I have, and it is relatively minor in the scope of things. I am hereby issuing a SPOILER ALERT ………
When Rhodey takes control of the MKII suit it appears that it has it’s own Arc Reactor, I guess that’s new?. And furthermore at when Nick Fury asks him how Rhodey was able to do that … Stark just shrugs it off. This could have easily been rectified by inserting a line like, “Rhodey was the contingency plan, if anything ever happened to me he would be Iron Man” … that’s all.
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