Charlie Dorf
Walking out of Iron Man 2, I realized I got exactly what I had expected going in. That’s not to say that my expectations were poor, they were just simple. Iron Man 2, like many big name sequels, such as James Bond’s Quantum of Solace, went the way of bigger action and explosion at the expense of storytelling and acting. However, this generalization was thankfully not entirely true. Though some of the plethora of supporting performances were weak and the story was far more decentralized and unfocused than the first, Robert Downey Jr. once again captured Tony Stark to the letter, while director Jon Favreau brought the film’s level of action up to a more entertaining if somewhat ridiculous level.