Prepare for a heavy-metal super sequel that ignites 2010’s blockbuster season…
Director Favreau (who gets a fun cameo) makes sure that absolutely everything is in place for a successful follow up to 2008’s jaw dropping origin tale. Fun loving billionaire Tony Stark (Robert ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Downey, Jr.) blasts back as Iron Man. The action picks up straight after the first film where Stark had announced his ‘super’ alternate identity to the world.
New villainous baddie ‘whiplash’ comes in the form of a crazed Russian scientist Ivan Vanko (Mickey ‘The Wrestler’ Rourke) – a serious threat due to the fact that he has created a weapon based on similar tech to Iron Man. Rourke eats up the screen on a growling, arrogant collision course with Stark and he brings a mean pair of laser whips with him…
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