I saw this nearly two days ago. The delay in writing this what you read now is a pretty clear indication that me was a bit nonplussed with this film. There's a load of good stuff in there but it's mostly saved till the end. The first two thirds is all Tony Stark being a bit of a silly moody pants and then a ton of stuff setting up the Avengers film. Now I'm enough of a geek to know what Marvel is doing here and that the Hulk and next year's Thor are all moving towards that big team up film. Christ, I even sat through the endless credits of this to see the mini extra tease at the end - but none of this helps Iron Man 2 as a film in its own right. Would love to know what your average filmgoer thinks Samuel L Jackson is up to when he comes marching in with his eye patch spouting off about the SHIELD program.
Thought Scarlet Johannson was really good doing the chop-socky, kicky, spinny bad guys bit. Nice costume. Big 'roboty' fight at the end was fun for a bit but all over too quickly and essentially just two tin people constantly banging each other on the head. Whiplash was cool - especially with the slicey racey car bit. Great scene that. But then he buggered off to tap keyboards for ages and coo at a budgie or something. Hmmm. Yeh, I was definitely disappointed with this. It's just not strong enough as a standalone film.
I'm still looking forward to Iron Man 3 though....
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