I despair at the jejune marketplace that demands such ridiculously immature filmmaking as Iron Man 2. Robert Downey Jr is hard at work destroying all goodwill engendered by the fine performances put in, recently enough, in A Scanner Darkly and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang with his turn as disturbing man-child Tony Stark, aka Iron Man. This is libertarian propaganda of the most blatant kind. Our gregarious capitalist fights for the right to have his super-machine-suit remain privatised in the face of a greedy government who have the nerve to have him appear in front of a court of inquiry despite the eminent good that industry has done the world (“the longest period of uninterrupted world peace in modern history,” we’re told). Meanwhile, the bad guy is a scruffy Russian with socialist tendencies (frequently alluded to) who speaks scary Russian! It remains condescendingly shit from beginning to end. You see Scarlett Johansson in her bra for a second. The existence of the Jewish state is justified.
Words: Oisin Murphy
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