Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 takes us six months past the original Iron Man where Tony Stark told the world that he is the man in the red and gold suit. Reprising the role is Robert Downey Jr.whose name may be mud in a law court but is pure gold on the silver screen. Hard to imagines it but Stark’s swagger has increased since he’s used the phenomenal exo-suit to bring about world peace. He receives rock star adulation at the world’s fair he’s opened as homage to his genius father Howard Stark (John Slattery) who envisioned the technology currently keeping Tony alive. The problem is that what is keeping him alive is also killing him and a substitute for its key element is elusive. Toxic technology is not all that Tony has to worry about. The US Government wants him to turn over his suit to the military and a brooding Russian ex con physicist named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) is planning revenge on the Stark clan. He’s upset because he thinks that his father Anton Vanko was double crossed by his former partner Howard Stark which led to a life of Russian penury while the Starks prospered exponentially. Ivan has also harnessed this powerful technology for his own highly charged weaponry. Just before the pressure causes Tony to have a mental meltdown he makes Pepper Potts Gwyneth Paltrow his CEO and gives her old job to Natalie Rushman (Scarlett Johansson) who turns out to be an agent from S.H.I.E.L.D working with director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson).and they provide Tony with coded information from his father. Can he decipher it in time to not only cure himself but also stop Ivan from his insidious plan once he gets in leaguer with Tony’s industrial rival Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell)? You probably know the answer which doesn’t deflect the fact that Iron Man 2 is an iron clad guarantee of big box office numbers for the summer of 2010.