This flick swapped all the good and bad points from the first film!

Rating: 7/10 (29 April 2010)

This is another film which as you can see I've given a pretty good score for, and yet I remain frustrated because it so easily could have been great where it was merely quite good. In the first film about forty minutes was dedicated to stark figuring out how to use that suit. But Don chucks the suit on and he's good to go. Even the flying which was demonstrated as a very difficult procedure in the first film, was suddenly child's play. Many would say at this point that features can't go on for 4 hours just to make everything realistic but this film didn't need to. There was enough pointless clutter for it to do everything right and bypass all the films major flaws. Long sequences of scarlet auditioning for the new karate kid movie wasted everyones time and whilst being very entertaining to watch didn't need to be in this particular film. I can assume that her presence as a hard-core beating up men was to give the girls a thrill. That said if Robert downy doesn't thrill you nothing will. Sam jacks'n, and his team of hard-cores could have been wiped out of this movie along with the corny way stark came about the new power source. That would have opened up enough time to develop dons character as another iron man properly, and stark could have upgraded the power source in a way that was not clichéd, far fetched and made us want to skip ahead to the next amazing fight sequence. First film had a poor bad guy and the fighting was mediocre. This film had a wonderful villain and amazing fight scenes but it was over cluttered to the detriment of the central story. 7 stars