Iron Man 2; A Nightmare on Elm Street; Video Nasties - The Definitive Guide
There's an inevitable tension at the heart of the Iron Man franchise between the humans and the hardware, the acting and the action. In the first film, Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges formed an entertaining axis of anxiety whose verbal fisticuffs declined as the smash-em-ups increased. The same is true of Iron Man 2 (Paramount, 2010, 12), although hats off to Downey for once again tearing up the role of Tony Stark, the rubber-mouthed billionaire whose "weapon" (he prefers the term "suit") has enabled him to "successfully privatise world peace". It's a terrific turn tailor-made for the once disastrously ill-disciplined Downey, all gabbling flippancy, smart-ass smugness, and borderline megalomaniacal madness. This time his nemesis is Ivan, an embittered Ruskie with a family grudge played with a rolling accent by the barely human Mickey Rourke whose...
There's an inevitable tension at the heart of the Iron Man franchise between the humans and the hardware, the acting and the action. In the first film, Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges formed an entertaining axis of anxiety whose verbal fisticuffs declined as the smash-em-ups increased. The same is true of Iron Man 2 (Paramount, 2010, 12), although hats off to Downey for once again tearing up the role of Tony Stark, the rubber-mouthed billionaire whose "weapon" (he prefers the term "suit") has enabled him to "successfully privatise world peace". It's a terrific turn tailor-made for the once disastrously ill-disciplined Downey, all gabbling flippancy, smart-ass smugness, and borderline megalomaniacal madness. This time his nemesis is Ivan, an embittered Ruskie with a family grudge played with a rolling accent by the barely human Mickey Rourke whose...
- 10/23/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
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