He's still what makes this show tick, but I'm not sure we want to see him wrestling with his own mortality when it's his instinctive immorality that's his sexiest attribute. The trouble with this sprawling scenario (credited to Justin Theroux of 'Tropic Thunder' fame) is that it mutes Downey's cavalier charisma. Add to that the realization that his new artificial ticker is slowly poisoning him, and there's more than enough to bring this shooting star back down to Earth. So does rival weapons manufacturer Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), and more pressingly, Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke), a Russian who has a bone to pick with the Stark family and a shortcut to the kind of technology that could prove a real threat. 'I've privatized world peace.'īut the politicians aren't the only ones who want a piece of him.

They want an invincible army, not a one-man defense system. īeginning part two in triumphal mode as the star attraction at the Stark Expo, Tony remains a loose cannon, even if he prefers to think of himself as a human shield or 'an enhanced prosthetic' as he tells the Senate committee charged with reminding Iron Man of his patriotic duty. Unlike Bruce Wayne, he couldn't keep his heroics to himself, and unlike Clark Kent, he knew how to party. A combination of Bill Gates, Howard Hughes and Hugh Hefner, Stark had more than his share of character flaws for a superhero. reveling in his bad-boy rep as the maverick inventor-industrialist Tony Stark. (CNN) - The first 'Iron Man' boasted a not-so-secret weapon in Robert Downey Jr. While not as stunning as the original, 'Iron Man 2' is still a sharp, snappy comic book movie.Film also stars Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow.In the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster, Robert Downey Jr.

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