It gets better as it goes on, and at over 2 hours it damn well better, but that's faint praise.
Iron Man 2 opens up with a good 40 minutes of silly bullshit and and Robert Downey lowering himself to Nicolas Cage level schtick. And while Downey spends the rest of film apologizing by being fairly awesome, poor Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell never get on track, and are never given anything to do that most part time dinner theater fucks couldn't do.
There's a pretty decent action sequence to close out the film, but by then it's too late and just not good enough. I will say that Don Cheadle has his game face on all the way through, and playing the one character who's serious about this shit from the get go gives him an advantage.
If you don't know anything of the comic you'll be frustrated by the appearance of a few characters who seem to be important but we're never told why. It's a good thing they show up though cause the plot needed a fucking hammer.
I was slightly underwhelmed by the first Iron Man, although I did like it. This one is a MAJOR step back and has pretty much killed the franchise for me. I just can't be assed to watch a third movie made by the same dickholes.
To sit through Iron Man takes an Iron Will.
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