Lost in Translation

Rating: 3/10 (16 February 2013)

First off let me say this is a bad movie
The Main theme as i understand it in Iron Man 2 deals with the inability for human beings to communicate with each other, whether it be a Man trying to tell a women he loves her, a Father trying to do likewise with his son, or the problems that a rise between different cultures like Americans and Russians.
It also happens between film makers and their audiences
Honestly the Tower of Babel featured more eloquence
Robert Downey gets the ball rolling by speaking in a garbled chopped up syntax through out the movie, the man just cannot get to the end of complete sentence without changing his thoughts mid-sentence, he might start out talking about the genius of Albert Einstein and half way through suddenly transition about his favorite Yogurt
Then there is the Villain played by Mickey Roarke, an American actor playing a Russian, yeah that always works out good, Rourke speaks his lines in a thick Borsht soup version of Russianese that is practically indecipherable, the Delphi Oracle was more precise then this guy.
here is an example: ' i VANT BUERD" he is trying to say: "I want my Bird" turns out the only thing this Yahoo likes is his white bird. The character speaks like that through out the whole Movie in chopped up half sentences, its laughable.
Then there is Tony Starks father, seems old man Starks never rarely talked to his son, which is why Tony is the flamboyant bad boy throughout constantly rebelling against authoriantian figure's, why Howard Stark was like that we can only speculate Maybe he was jealous of his boy, maybe he saw his genius of a lad as a future rival and closed him off, who knows, but guess what Daddy dear left Tony a hidden Easter egg in a home movie, yep instead of the guy taking the time to have a heart to heart with his lad while he was alive he slipped it into a movie that he just knew his son would watch when he had decided he needed to hear from his Dad, such is the though process of super geniuses
Then there is Scarlet Johansen looking all dishy as The Black Widow, another Russian who barely speaks, she seems to be totally out of place in this Movie,we have no understanding of where she came from to rise to such a level in Stark Industry, laughably this ambiguious speaking Ruski know's more about Stark industry then Tony Stark does. She seems to dropped straight out of thin air to land this Job at a billion dollar defense contractor, and they say its hard finding work.
It seems Tony is dying, yep, the Palladium that is keeping him alive , in one of those cruel twists of fate is also killing him, and because he is dying Tony figures the perfect response is to act like a douche bag to everyone. Tony cannot seem to tell anyone that he is a goner not even Pepper..his girlfriend, but is she his girlfriend, does he love her..i just don't know, he certainly doesn't show it between checking out Scarlett and arriving at a party with two blondes ,but since its classic Tony Stark to always be misdirecting his true emotions this could be par for the course. We are also to assume that Gwyneth Paltrow loves him, which is why she puts up with his nonsense but her role as Pepper Potts is only a plot devise, Gywneth is never given the screen time to grow beyond anything but a quick sketch of a character. She cane be summed up in 3 or 4 words: efficient, intelligent, long-suffering
Another theme throughout is destruction, all that Stark built must be destroyed, If Tony has a fleet of beautiful cars they must be trashed, his beautiful home demolished, Howard Stark built a beautiful park for all to enjoy yep that has to be attacked
Maybe it represents Arnachy, Tony's inability to keep anything because of his repellant personality, though in the end he seems to find the only thing he really needs.
Don Cheadle and Gywneth Paltrow give OK performances making the most out of the material they've been handed
Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury is so miscast that its frightening, His nick Fury comes off as Miss Johnson's Pimp rather then her Boss at SHIELD
in summing up this picture i Think Mickey Rourke had it right..give them the Bird