“I
wanna make Iron Man look like an antique.”
Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) has told the world that
he is Iron Man. His confession about his superhero identity has not worked out
too well for him. The U.S. government wants the technology of his suits so the
military can turn them into weapons and he does not want the suits to be used
as weapons for destruction. Tony’s mind is focused on helping to bring peace to
the world. Another weapons entrepreneur named Justin Hammer also wants Tony’s
technology to create his own weaponized soldiers and sell them to the
government for an insane amount of money.
In Russia a man named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) has
built a similar reactor like the one inside Tony. Ivan uses the reactor to
charge long electrified cables attached to a special pack. He had lived with
his father Anton Vanko who has just passed away. Anton had worked for Howard
Stark, Tony’s father, and blueprints for a project. Ivan wants to seek revenge
for his father and go after Tony.
Meanwhile, the palladium core inside the reactor that
keeps Tony alive is poisoning him. He does not tell anyone this news. Since he
is near death he decides to just live it up and go crazy. Tony does do one
smart thing by appointing Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) to be the new CEO of
Stark Industries. The papers signing over the company to Pepper are brought in
by a new employee named Natalie Rushman (Scarlett Johansson). Tony being a man
finds her incredibly attractive and hires her as his own personal assistant.
Tony, Pepper, his security guard Happy (Jon Favreau), and
Natalie travel to Monaco for the famous Grand Prix race. Justin is there as
well and drives Tony up a wall. The palladium in his blood system is getting
worse and this signals to Tony that his time on earth is not that long and for
him to get into his race car he is sponsoring and drive it himself. In the
middle of the race Ivan/Whiplash comes out onto the track. The head from his
weapon burns his shirt off revealing the pack and electrical wires. The wires
are so powerful they cut Tony’s race car in half. Whiplash goes after Tony and
Pepper and Happy and Natalie but of course he is caught before anything major
can happen.
Ivan/Whiplash is of course able to escape and does so
with the help of Justin Hammer because Justin wants Whiplash to make the
mechanical soldiers exactly like Tony’s Iron Man suit. Ivan just goes along
with everything so he can get his revenge on the Stark family.
Tony eventually finds an alternative to the palladium so
he will not die. S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Coulson comes back to try to get Tony to
join the Avengers and so does Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). It is also
revealed that Natalie is really Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow and she is
also an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
In the end, like any superhero movie, the good guy beats
the bad guys and even gets the girl in the end. Only the girl is Pepper Potts
not Black Widow.
Iron Man 2 was
alright. I felt a little bored with it. There were certain scenes that were
dragged out. I liked Black Widow’s introduction into the Marvel Cinematic
Universe but I felt it could have been done better. I know this is an Iron Man
movie and not a full out Black Widow movie but to me they made Natasha look
like a typical kick ass female in a superhero movie not a kick ass female that
will come to be incredible in the later Avengers movies. I do not know if any
of that made any sense. Since I like kick ass females Black Widow was my
favorite part of the movie. Tony Stark continues to be both a good character and
an annoying character. That being said Robert Downey, Jr. continues to be
incredible as Tony Stark in every way. He IS Tony Stark. Iron Man 2 is a movie I do not plan on sitting through again in the
near future. It is not terrible but it is not one that was really able to capture
my interest.
No comments:
Post a Comment