Just not enough

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2010)

So I'm the biggest Iron Man fan I know. My Myspace name is Tony Stark, I loved Iron Man 1, and I enjoy the comics too. So I'm no guru but I'm just giving you some perspective.
I'm a big fan but still did not like this movie. It was over 2 hours long and I felt EVERY minute of it. The magic was gone. The fights were few and far between and very short. I can hardly count that scuffle between drunk Ironman and War Machine a fight. There was too much politics, too much talk, and no heart. Why the filmmakers decide to have him expose himself as Ironman is a mystery to me. Where is the charming funny Tony Stark? And where's his cute relationship with Pepper? None of it gelled. Mickey Rourke could have been a cool villain but he was defeated almost as easily as his drones. This movie was on Transformers 2 level. And that's actually a very good comparison unfortunately.
This was a sequel that should have beaten out the first. But it doesn't compare to it. I wanted a superhero blowout and I got a political snooze fest. Sorry, Ironman 2, I wanted to love you, but you just weren't epic enough.