Movie Review #7: Iron Man 2

I'll be honest, I'm not sure what to say about Iron Man 2. The directing was good. The acting was good. The story was good. I guess it was just good. Compared to its predecessor, it is inferior. Compared to the average action movie, it is superior. I suppose I would have preferred, as usual, a little of the time spent on extended action sequences channeled instead into character development. Scarlett Johansson's character, in particular could have used a bit more developing and not just because she was, how shall we say, easy on the eyes. In addition I would say that there was a great deal about the film that was predictable yet, somehow, not unpleasant or disappointing.

In his second outing on film, Tony Stark is facing new challenges. He is juggling new health challenges, antagonistic senatorial committees and a rival arms manufacturer played a little too perfectly by Sam Rockwell. Everything seems to be going Tony's way until a rogue Russian physicist decides to enact vengeance on him on a racetrack of all places. The path to sorting all these problems out takes Tony through Nick Fury's S.H.E.I.L.D. agency as well as his own family history.

This is usually the part where I expound on some insight for life that I gleaned from what the filmmaker was trying to say. I'm not sure if there was much in Iron Man 2 to take away that fits the bill. I suppose I'll have to settle for the fact that I thoroughly enjoyed watching it and look forward to putting the DVD on my shelf next to the first one.

Oh, and wait in the theater until after the credits.