Watchable but really a rerun of IronMan!

Rating: 3/10 (13 February 2011)

Robert Downey jnr reprises his role of IronMan - he jokes around with sidekick, he goes off message and is an oddball with an to the future, and he flirts outrageously without any sex, and he has ludicrous fights with a surfeit of faux-bloody violence. Even the rhythm of the film is an exact replica of the aforementioned action flick - you know quiet bits and then every twenty minutes a big action set piece. It's watchable, the old London CGI is interesting, but the villain (Mark Strong as underwhelming here as in 'Robin Hood') is pathetic, the showy 'how Holmes works it out' has been done many times before, eg 'The Bone Collector,' and the love interest ho hum. But Downey and Law play well off each other and it just about rattles along. Sequel well emphasised - oh dear!