The movie Iron Man 2 picks up from the first movie titled Iron man.

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 2012)

The movie Iron Man 2 picks up from the first movie titled Iron man, where Tony Stark played by Robert Downey Jr., reveals to the world at a news conference that he is indeed Iron Man, much to the chagrin of his executive assistant Pepper Potts, played by Gwyneth Paltrow. In this second part, Iron man has a nemesis in Ivan Vanko, played by Mickey Rourke, who is back to take his revenge on Tony for what he considers is a betrayal of his father Anton Vanko, played by Evgeniy Lazarev, when they worked together in the past to generate energy sources. In addition to that, Tony also has to contend with government officials, who have concerns about his type of weapons technology used to create his Iron man suit, falling into enemy hands. His friend Lt. Rhodes, played by Don Cheadle is torn as to whether he should turn over the Iron Man suit to the authorities. Mean while, Tony Stark's former business associate, and weapons expert Justin Hammer, played by Sam Rockwell, is actively trying to obtain the secret of his Iron man suit technology. Natalie Rushman, the legal consultant for Stark Industries who is played by Scarlett Johansson reveals herself and her ties to Nick Fury, played by Samuel L. Jackson. Theme The theme of this movie is based on the mostly the Iron man character, Tony stark. The plot is also tied to the theme, which involves wanting to know the secret to the Iron man suit technology, and to take advantage of it to destroy Iron man.
Plot Ivan Vanko who seeks to avenge his father, a Soviet physicist; because Tony's father had him deported to Russia, as a result of his greediness, is able to build a weapon similar to the Iron man suit, and confronts and attacks Tony in public in Monaco with his own weapon. This confirms the fears that both the military and government officials have about Tony's technology falling into the wrong hands. Justin Hammer witnesses the confrontation between Ivan and Iron man, and seeks to enlist Ivan's help to imitate the Iron man suit technology for his own line of military grade iron suits. Meanwhile, the military is seeking to confiscate Tony's suits because of its potential danger. Tony has to contend with all this while he is slowly dying. The action is this movie is very fast paced and has excitement. It can be compared to Batman's 'The Dark Knight' in that the theme of that movie also focuses mainly on the plot and also the Batman character as well.
Techniques The lighting in the movie in quite varied, in certain scenes, the lighting is muted to reflect the mood and the tone of what is going on in the scene, in this case the lighting is low key. For the most part, a lot of the action scenes have bright lighting, high key lighting, so that the viewer is able to full see and appreciate the action sequences. Since this movie is action packed, the camera angle is very important in terms of capturing the details of the action, and making the view either objective or subjective. The camera makes one feel like they are a part of the action, by zooming in on it, and also panning and tilting the lens. There are scenes in the movie where we are made to focus on just particular subject.
In conclusion, after watching the movie, one gets to see how the plot to kill and destroy Iron man comes together; as earlier mentioned the theme is mainly centered on Iron man, Tony Stark himself. Through the action and the dialogue, we come to understand and appreciate this character.