After the triumphant first installment, the pressure was on for Jon Favreau to deliver a sequel that was bigger and better than the original. Bizarrely enough, Iron Man 2 does not suffer from an overload of action, but from an emphasis on chatter: you could literally trim out at least 20 minutes of dialogue from the second half. Mickey Rourke makes a strong candidate as the film’s big bad, but his Whiplash gets lost in the plethora of superfluous support characters. Thank god for RDJ’s comedic chops and the film’s riveting climax, in which Iron Man and sidekick War Machine pack more heat than the Terminator on a hot summer’s day.
3/5
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