Iron Man 2.

This was ok for what it was, a big budget special effects film.
Unlike the first movie, in this film less emphasis is placed on Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark and a bit more on his various rivals and accomplices, played by Gynneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke, Garry Shandling, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau (who directed), Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johannsen, who has rarely looked better btw. Samuel Jackson has a cameo.

Downey does a good job playing a spoiled lazy playboy with all the money and toys he could ever want. Rourke is a revenge seeking Russian and Rockwell does an excellent job parodying a Bill Gates like rival to Tony Stark, who competes with (and loses to) Stark on just about everything but like Wiley Coyote , always comes back for more. Stark is under pressure from both the US government and his economic rivals to share the Iron Man technology, which he refuses to do.

This movie doesn't take itself anywhere near as seriously as Dark Knight or Sin City and that's ok. Just mostly mindless fun that sets up a few more sequels.


"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungleā€”as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.