Review – Iron Man 2

I must have been drunk when I saw the first one. No, I remember what it was. I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  that same afternoon, and by comparison Iron Man was a work of staggering genius. Sadly, this one is baked from a virtually identical recipe, and without an inept fiasco alongside it to make it look good, the flaws stand out all too sharply. Once again Tony Stark (once again Robert Downey) battles bad guys and inner demons of assholism. On the plus side, Scarlett Johansson was a nice addition. Replacing Terence Howard with Don Cheadle was a push. But Mickey Rourke just gets more talentless and harder to look at with every new movie he makes. Further, Jon Favreau needs to stick to directing dumb Christmas movies. I suspect comic book fans will get a kick out of this, or at least I hope so because it doesn’t appear to have been made for much of anyone else. See if desperate