Director: Jon Favreau.
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke.
Rating: Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, and some language
Just not all the time. Unevenly paced and at times visually almost incoherent, especially during action scenes, the film stays afloat as director Jon Favreau relies heavily on the considerable charms of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, along with an excellent supporting cast. Not that Favreau always knows what to do with it; certainly it's disappointing that Mickey Rourke spends 80 percent of the climactic battle . . . typing.
Yes, clickity-clack on a laptop keyboard, programming drones to take down Iron Man because, well, that's what Russian physicists insane with grief do, I guess. That's who Rourke plays, Ivan Vanko, a brilliant man with bad dentition who believes that his father's downfall was caused by Tony Stark's father. Now he's out for revenge.
"Iron Man 2" picks up where the original left off, right after Stark reveals that he is indeed Iron Man. Months pass and he's flying high, literally and figuratively, telling a congressional hearing to which he's just refused to give his Iron Man technology, "I have successfully privatized world peace!"
Not so fast, bub. Not only is Vanko making progress with a sort of steampunk Iron Man knockoff suit, Stark is also being flanked by a competitor, Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), a squirrelly arms developer itching for a government contract.
Meanwhile, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), Stark's loyal assistant, is trying to convince Stark that he needs to pay more attention to his company (he responds by promoting her). His friend, Lt. Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Don Cheadle) is trying to keep Stark in the Army's relatively good graces. And newly hired legal representative Natalie Rushman (Scarlett Johansson) seems to know an awful lot about martial arts. . . .
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