After the massive success of the first Iron Man movie and the new Incredible Hulk (2008) movie Marvel had many more movies planned in the future such as Thor and Captain America which would later create the Avengers team up movie Avengers Assemble but while those movies were in production Marvel needed to fill the gap with a new movie so we got Iron Man 2 to fill that gap.

The first Iron Man movie was amazing and visually stunning which also introduced (Robert Downey Jr) as Tony Stark/Iron Man the movie was action packed, funny, smart and was everything we wanted in an Iron Man movie including the usual (Stan Lee) cameo so Iron Man 2 had a lot to live up to but did it deliver?.

The movies storyline is a bit of a let down with most of story focusing on Tony Stark battling with the government to keep the Iron Man project in his hands only. Tony gets sick and has a sort of a midife I'm know I'm going to die crisis where Robert Downey Jr basically has to act like he did when he was on drugs so that's funny in an ironic way. The movies main villain played by (Mickey Rourke) is just the most generic movie villain ever and doesn't really have any defining characteristics unless you count speaking Russian there are a few fight scene's in the movie but only one is decent and sadly it's in the last 20 minutes of the movie and by this point your half asleep from boredom and sick of the constant unfunny jokes and sarcasm from Tony Stark so by the end of the movie you enjoy the action because it's the only real action in the movie which in a comic book movie you'd expect more of especially from Iron Man.

Overall the movie isn't bad but it just isn't as action oriented as it should of been and the storyline could of been so much interesting but the movie does introduce (Don Cheadle) as War Machine who would later partner up with Iron Man and become an Anvenger himself the movie also introduces (Scarlet Johansson) as Black Widow who has her own kick ass fight scene in the movie her character would later get more back story and a more quiet badass persona in the Avengers movie but for a first introduction of the character it's done rather well.

The special effects and CGI are admittedly a little better than they were in the first movie which makes sense as it had a higher budget and the Iron Man design was kept in it's Mark II stage War Machine also stands out from Iron Man making it easy to tell them apart even when using simular effects and in fast paced action scenes.

I recommend watching this movie if your a fan of comics, Iron Man or just Marvel and the MCU as a whole and while not the best movie in the MCU it's still very entertaining and continued to make Avengers a reality in the years to come.