Not as good as the first film

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2020)

As far as sequels go, most of the time they do not live up to the original. This is one case with Iron Man 2. The first Iron Man film was a perfect film. The acting was fantastic. It blended humor with the action. It was an entertaining film. Iron Man 2 is all of that but just a little less. For this sequel, it does not offer anything really new. The story was a typical hero vs. villain story with some good action scenes. We see War Machine played by Don Cheadle this time around (Terrence Howard was War Machine in the first Iron Man). I did not think that recasting was neccessary but they managed to find someone better who happens to be Don Cheadle. I suppose this sequel did not really live up to the hype that it was given. It is still a good film. But in terms of sequels, it is just a film that did not really offer anything new.