I was excited for this movie like no other in a while and maybe that’s what caused my slight disappoint in it. There wasn’t any huge problem that totally destroyed the movie, it had all the required elements to make a satisfactory summer blockbuster, but I couldn’t help but feel deflated. The first disappoint was the lack of AC/DC. When you release an album called Iron Man 2: AC/DC you would expect, I assume, there to be lots of AC/DC but there are only two tracks in the whole movie and when they are so suitable for the light and airy style of the movie this seems pointless to me. There are certain moments in the movie, especially the car scenes with Downey Jr. that shouted out for some AC/DC but instead you get some generic and bland rock stuff. It distracted me, although it probably didn’t help that I had listened to the album so many times that my mind had programmed itself to believe that I would be hearing constant AC/DC which just felt like a big tease.
Scarlett Johansson is just gorgeous. Every scene with her oozes sex appeal and she just classified herself as probably the biggest sex bomb in movies today. Downey Jr. is still effortlessly cool and funny but dripping those elements of alcoholism into the story, most likely leading up to the whole Genie in a Bottle story from the comics, felt out-of-place. It didn’t suit the whole lightness of the movie but, still, Downey does a great and very commendable job. Mickey Rourke, who just looks and acts like himself with an so-so accent, is fine as the baddie but not really used very much. When he loses his first battle to only end up in prison and then doesn’t do much else for the rest of the movie it felt like he didn’t really serve a purpose. This point in the movie also bookmarks the part where nothing of real interest happens. Although I like a good, slow drama as much as the next person the story was just not strong enough to make that hour in the middle of the movie that consists almost entirely of talking and plot exposition interesting enough to keep my attention. Dare I say it, I was actually a little bored. Although the actors do a fine job it just wasn’t suitable. It’s fine when it’s interspersed with some Iron Man fights but that didn’t happen. Iron Man barely features at all with the movie focusing entirely on Downey’s fall into alcoholism and the creation of new suits at Hammer Industries, with Rourke’s russian baddie heading the charge.
Sam Rockwell, an actor criminally ignored for far too long, gets to totally steal the show as a rival weapons dealer to Tony Stark but he feels like another character that is little used, with the just the feeling that this is just the set up for the next movie even saying in his last scene that we haven’t seen the last of him.
The whole movie just feels okay and, if anything, really just a big advert for the future Marvel movies, in particular The Avengers movie. There’s also a Captain America reference and a really good Thor one if you can be bothered to wait till after the lengthy credits sequence.
It’s good, could have been better though. Oh if you’re going to release a soundtrack for a movie please make that the soundtrack for the whole movie.
Nice work!!! keep it up