I'm not the biggest fan of marvel film adaptations, but I did like Sam Raimi's spider man trilogy. I didn't have to high expectations coming into this film, so I wasn't disappointed with the results. I'm just going to say it, this film was average at best and I always forget I've even watched this film.

Let's start with the characters. Tony stark still has his over confident personality, which is still better than all these other wooden characters from marvel films lately. I thought whip-lash( if thats even his name) was going to be a bad-ass after seeing the trailers. He had his moments, but in the end he was never a threat, his fight scenes were short and he was easily beaten. Black widow served no purpose in my opinion, just a woman in tight clothing, big whoop. Hammer was just another annoying and useless villain.

The action scenes were poorly done, I can only seem to remember the short one at the race track and the one at the stark expo thing. The end fight scene was horrible, left on a bad note. It was mildly amusing to see war machine and iron man destroy stark's house. At least this film wasn't completely mindless like most movies targeted at the general audience.

To summarize, this film is not as good as the first one, and didn't leave a lasting impression on me. I was left unsatisfied, but thats just me.